“all is build-up with no pay-off.”
X2: X-Men United
“Hollywood loves movies like this.”
Yi-Yi
“We must judge who they are only by their actions”
Yojimbo (1961)
“so many sandals and socks”
You Can Count on Me
“competent and thoughtful character study…even if assembled pieces are somewhat familiar.”
Zelig
“solid intellect but hit-and-miss storytelling.”
“hmmmm…”
Vanity Fair (2004)
“wanted another forty or sixty minutes”
Velvet Goldmine
“a perpetual two-hour prance with a contemptuous come-hither look on his face.”
Vera Drake
“a document of working class London life in the 1950s”
A Very Long Engagement
“If there are causes worth dying for, they don’t show up”
The Village
“I can’t decide if it’s clever or ridiculous.”
Waking Life
“vignettes celebrate curiosity, imagination, and the act of dreaming…with the freedom of animation.”
Wall Street
“Gekko is the purest, most undiluted product of capitalism”
Walkabout
“juxtaposition of ‘civilization’ and ‘wilderness’ told in purely cinematic terms of images and expressions.”
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
“to stop the Were-Rabbit, you will need…a bullet!”
Walk the Line
“a real sense of atmosphere for a quickly vanishing time and place”
War of the Worlds (2005)
“everything feels in quotation marks”
The Watcher in the Woods
“the only thing it’s missing is a genuine Indian burial ground.”
The Way of the Gun
“complications and complications until we kind of stop caring.”
Westworld
“like an early draft of ‘Jurassic Park.’”
Whale Rider
“story of these two strong personalities at odds with one another”
Witness (1985)
“be careful among the English”
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
“Willy says: spare the rod and spoil the child. We’ve never heard that before.”
Wizard People Dear Reader
“be careful when anyone loves you.”