STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world. — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing. — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite. — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy. — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence. — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it. — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
