"If the career of Christopher Nolan is any indication, we've entered an
era in which movies can no longer be great. They can only be awesome,
which isn't nearly the same thing." -Inception (July 14th, 2010)
"The picture has a pale, worn-out look, as if the blood is being drained
from it even as we watch – like the characters who populate it, it
looks ready for some kind of rejuvenation that may never come." -Post Mortem (April 11th, 2012)
"As the end credits of this last dour Swedish snooze-a-thon started
rolling, I clapped my notebook shut as if it were the last day of
school. Huzzah! Bring on David Fincher. Please." -The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (October 28th, 2010)
"His body is gangly and puppet-like in that preadolescent way, but every
movement is resolute: When he chases after the various kids who,
repeatedly, try to steal his precious bike, he throws off sparks of grim
determination, like a single-minded marathon runner. Maybe, in the end,
he outruns the movie." -The Kid With A Bike (May 15th, 2011)
"Reichardt and her cinematographer, Chris Blauvelt, allow the weather,
the time of day, and the landscape, as it shifts little by little
beneath the settlers' feet, to determine the movie's color palette: One
minute we see strata of sky, clouds and scrubby land rendered in dry,
parched tones; the next we're transported into an early-evening fever
dream of unreal-looking purples and blues right out of a Maxfield
Parrish painting." -Meek's Cutoff (April 7th, 2011)
"When Katz shows the four playing a board time, they're clearly having a
great time, and not ironically -- Katz gives us the sense that he cares
for his characters, as opposed to just using them as mouthpieces for the
discontent of his generation." -Cold Weather (February 4th, 2011)
"Not since Antichrist has a man suffered so greatly at the tiny, grabby hands of God's creatures." -Fury Vengeance (April 28th, 2010)
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