“Vagabond doesn’t ask its main character to explain herself, and that attitude makes all the difference.”

“…a movie of many layers, most of which are only partly revealed.”

“…one of Agnes Varda’s more feminist works, yet its approach is hardly polemical.”

“…feels like a subliminal experience.”

“Plenty of movies have been praised for being honest about the downside of drug use. Trainspotting is honest about the bliss.”

“…presents Hell Week through the lens of Frederick Douglass.”

“Rio Bravo isn’t a Fordian display of vast Western visas; the contours explored here are emotional.”

“…part social realism and part forerunner of the French New Wave.”

“I could watch Fernando Rey squirm for hours, so amusing are the aristocratically clownish expressions on his face.”

“…the explosive pyrotechnics of an id bravely laid bare.”