Accuracy Quote by A. O. Scott

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

— A. O. Scott

My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing…

— A. O. Scott

Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.

— A. O. Scott

The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail…

— A. O. Scott

Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability…

— A. O. Scott

Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting…

— A. O. Scott

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

— A. O. Scott

Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate…

— A. O. Scott

The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in…

— A. O. Scott

The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

— A. O. Scott

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions…

— A. O. Scott

War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.

— A. O. Scott