"What a dream match-up: The director, Martin Scorsese, who made mob movies a household name, and the best upcoming Hollywood talent in decades. This film is a mixture of vintage gangster plot lines, sexy young talent, and Jack F'ing Nicholson, who deliciously portrays a Boston crime lord, based on actual mob boss Whitey Bolger. This film wonderfully delivers - it checks all the boxes: Complicated, conflicted characters - check. Awkward love triangle - check. Bloody shootouts - check. It's hard to find anything not to like."

"This lovely film centers on one such couple, Agnes and William. Despite reservations from his parents (they are wary that the forest-loving Agnes is a witch), the pair marry and have three children. The magic here is how director Zhao takes her time in life's moments. This builds our relationships with the characters. When tragedy occurs, it's a literal gut-punch. The film's ending is masterful, a play within a play, that will, very possibly, restore your faith in the human experience."

"There is no way a mature film critic such as myself can become emotionally involved with a bunch of Lego creations. That would be INCORRECT! It is so easy to enjoy this film. It's crazy, chock full of pop and comics references, witty... and so darn funny! Hats off to the script writers and animators. And Will Arnett may be the second best Batman voice in all of nerd-dome (nobody can touch Kevin Conroy's Batman). Here - Everything is Awesome - literally. Pew, pew, pew!"

"This epic saga is unforgettable, with its wonderful characters, converging story lines and brutally honest plot points. Capt. Call is a hard, determined leader. He's kept in step by his more laid-back partner, Gus, whose warm smile reminds me of my grandfather, Charley Straley. Charley was a lifelong Texas rancher... humble, hard-working, intelligent, apolitical."

"This is what might occur if the creators of Black Mirror decided to make a family adventure movie. It's the terror of SkyNet, but the Flintstone's are coming to the rescue. There's a very heartfelt sub-plot that will impact all dads and daughters in the audience. That plot even carries through when the Robots begin their world-conquering domination. There are too many witty one-liners to count..."

"Jennifer Lawrence - damn - she can act... like "move-over-Meryl" act. Here she stars as a hard-scrabble Ozark teen, Ree Dolly, who is trying to find her missing father to keep from being evicted... Lawrence simply dominates the screen as she fights, completely alone, to keep her family safe."

"Although the story is uniquely American, its themes are universal: love, friendship, bigotry, loss, redemption, death. It stops and takes its time to let little moments develop. A simple gesture becomes a painful memory, then a reason to keep on living. Here, like a quiet forest, we ache to hear every word from real men and women. The dialog is beautifully economical. These characters are real."

"Bugonia is an education on several fronts. Much of the dialogue reinforces that impossibility of arguing with a conspiracy theorists, a stress many of us feel today. As the captors interrogate Michelle, the tense, claustrophobic setting is smothering. Then, in a wink, the ending occurs and you have to discard almost everything into a nearby waste basket."