“… fumbles its own legacy, largely by believing it had one in the first place.”
“Music is liberation in Sinners…”
“Could become a kiddie cult classic…”
“… amusingly examines the particular peculiarities of men trying to bond.”
“Although swords strike and blood flows, Yojimbo mostly registers as a comedy.”
“If someone knows the one true thing about you, that might be enough for a life together.”
“Itami squeezes Japanese food customs, even as he offers a fondly humorous survey of them.”
“…you feel the desperation and doom closing in with each passing scene.”
“…a mournful, if macabre, meditation on losing a loved one — as only writer-director David Cronenberg could manage.”
“Tarkovsky sets the stage for the rest of his career with Andrei Rublev…”
“…has a mysticism and poeticism that would define later Tarkovsky efforts.”
