Next to Men With Guns, this may be the best film about a Latin American crisis directed by a white guy.
Jonathan Glazer’s fatal mistake as a storyteller is never owning up to all that is merely hinted at in Nicole Kidman’s face.
Margarethe von Trotta throws so many tumultuous storylines together that it’s a miracle that her movie comes off as smoothly as it does.
Mean Creek slots itself nicely in that catalog of macabre coming-of-age stories like River’s Edge and Stand by Me.
The movie is an ensemble piece but, make no mistake, this is Laura Dern’s show all the way.
From one part of the world to another, Maria Full of Grace swirls with movement and stirs us with its torrents of feeling.
Like any great work of art, it reveals more to the spectator each time it’s experienced.