John Anderson

"Hurt and Costner are terrific together as two sides of the same personality"

"It's a movie on the wrong side side of the so-bad-it's-good line"

"Cruel, unfunny and yet somehow perversely fascinating."

"Facile, formulaic and utterly charm-free"  

"Destined to rank as one of the major achievements in American documentary"  

"The voyeuristic indulgences of a middle-aged filmmaker playing out his most deep-seated and unresolved sexual fantasies and anxieties."

"The drama has some exhilarating moments, but they're dampened by concessions to conventionally bloviating music, overly theatrical dialogue and inadvertently comic slo-mo."  

"Martin is marvelous; through sheer charisma, he takes over certain scenes as if no one else is there."

"Strange and beautiful film about an ex-con and a disabled girl whose odd bond brings them briefly out of the dark."

Oren Moverman and Thom Zimny allow a glittering roster of celebrity witnesses to testify in no uncertain terms about the musical virtues of Willie Nelson."  

"'Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed in the Mountains' is an oxymoron: a docu constructed from re-enactments, talking heads and no actual footage of the story it tells, but that still packs a knock-out punch."

"Of all the Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich films, this Oriental thriller may be the most sinfully pleasurable and amusing."

"Watch Lola Montes and you may never watch a movie the same way again."  

"STAX may have been of a particular place and time, but Ms. Wignot resurrects it all gloriously, and grittily, and with the personality and precision of the M.G.s rhythm section"  

"The movie moves from truly creepy to truly inane, which is, unfortunately, all too common in films of this ilk."

"Oddly, 10 years barely qualifies as a comedy; in fact, the one interesting thing about it is the dire melancholy at its core."  

"Transcends its star's controversial career and, in the bargain, stands head, shoulders and heart above every other Hollywood movie that we've seen so far this year."

"The pacing is too pokey by half, and the payoff is a wrenching disappointment."