“…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.”

“For Yasujiro Ozu, domestic tranquility always sits on a razor’s edge…”

“Aficionados of long, contemplative single takes will appreciate The Fishing Place…”