“It’s as if blood has been sucked from the very images.”
“… a momentous movie, if not quite as momentous as it thinks it is.”
“… an undeniable drop in quality when it comes to the music.”
“A powder keg of movie-musical performances…”
“Jumps the shark — and the rhino, and the rabid baboons.”
“… a potboiler with spiritual principles, a crisis-of-faith drama full of courtroom intrigue.”
“…a story with a palpable familiarity among its characters, one that breeds both love and contempt.”
“…a crucial document for understanding the rich community that can form via online role-playing games.”
“… turns on a fear of mortality — or worse, being stuck in some in-between place.”
“… establishes its own unique identity by intimately portraying an identity in flux.”
“David Lean returns to the type of tortured romance he had explored in 1945’s Brief Encounter.”
“Some beautifully scripted dialogue scenes, nicely performed…”