question: The blood pours freely in Argento's classic Suspiria, a giallo horror as grandiose and glossy as it is gory.

numbered reviews: 1. Throughout this nerve-wracking journey, Argento's sly gift is to strike when you least expect it.
2. As an appetizer to the thoroughly bizarre world of Italian horror, Suspiria is the perfect antipasto.
3. The beauty of this film is hypnotic. It draws the viewer in, casting a spell of its own. It is utterly bewitching.
4. Argento's skilful use of unsettling, intense colour and stunning set designs adequately obscure the film's numerous structural flaws.
5. One of the most important horror films ever made
6. A strange combination of the art house and the slaughterhouse, it may be too violent for the typical cineaste and too contrived for the typical gore-hound. Yet somehow Argento impressively straddles both worlds, offering a unique vision ...
7. an extravagantly stylised Danse Macabre... a surreally demented fairytale, and one of very few films that occupies the no-man's-land between charnel house and arthouse.
8. An eye-popping maelstrom of visual excess.
9. A direусo de arte e fotografia impecрveis, associadas Я angustiante trilha e Я direусo segura de Argento, compensam as mрs atuaушes e o roteirofraco, criando uma experiЖncia intensa e incЗmoda.
10. A movie that makes sense only to the eye (and even then . . .).


question: Led by a mesmerizing debut performance from Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene is a distinctive, haunting psychological drama.

numbered reviews: 1. It's one thing for a work of art to ambiguously reveal depths of emotion and meaning; it's something else again to dangle the promise of meaning that never arrives.
2. The story hinges on a believable lead performance, and Olsen is mesmerizing in her first film role. She starts out wide-eyed and vulnerable and eventually assumes the look of a captive, communicating raw paranoia with subtle gestures.
3. It slowly but assuredly packs on the dread and the discomfort in a style that Roman Polanski would admire, resulting in the kind of movie you can feel tensing up the base of your spine.
4. A confidently spooky indie debut.
5. First-time filmmaker Sean Durkin, who also wrote the screenplay, has a confident voice and a clear vision.
6. Two enthralling new talents announce themselves in "Martha Marcy May Marlene."
7. "Martha Marcy May Marlene" is an utterly gripping ride that will keep you guessing until the last second about what is real and what imagined, and whether Martha has entirely snapped the tether of sanity.
8. Gets at something deeply unsettling about the human condition.
9. genuinely haunting
10. Elizabeth Olsen gives a sensational performance in a gripping psychological thriller, from gifted first-time writer-director Sean Durkin.


question: Colour Me Kubrick has a fascinating premise, but provides little insight into Kubrick and the man who impersonated him.

numbered reviews: 1. [A] loopy lark...the sheer goofiness of the premise, together with its gossipy 'insider' nature [and] the take-no-prisoners performance of John Malkovich...carry it along.
2. Malkovich's playing to the rafters is certainly amusing, but the film can't shake off its Borscht Belt by way of Britain lineage and its failure to dig beneath the surface.
3. The film, with its relentlessly tight focus on its main character, winds down to nothingness.
4. The movie is endless even at less than 90 minutes.
5. It's a truffle of a movie that may leave you feeling like you ate one too many purple chocolates, but secondary performances by Honor Blackman (remember the original "Avengers") and the ever-kooky Ken Russell add texture to the comic motif.
6. The script evinces no interest in the psychology of its main character.
7. [Kubrick] might dismiss as trite the message that proximity to celebrity is so intoxicating, it stupefies. But one hopes he'd relish the cheerful audacity of the caper and its telling.
8. Malkovich relishes the character quirks in a performance that pulls out all the stops and pushes every button.
9. Malkovich pulls out all the gaudy stops.
10. Malkovich's performance, and the irresistible concept of an anonymous man dining out on a false identity, carries the film along giddily, and Cook wisely keeps Color Me Kubrick short and deliciously tart.


question: This fractured fairytale doesn't have the wit or animation quality to compete with the likes of the Shrek franchise.

numbered reviews:
1. The digital animation ranges from competent to clunky, the jokes too often feel tossed-off and random, and the movie too often descends into dullness, only to be yanked back from the abyss by the goat.
2. Offers a few laughs but overall is pretty tired.
3. A small, lightweight, enormously clever and never cloying little jewel.
4. Almost everything about the film seems off, from the timing of the gags to the bland power-pop music score.
5. Hoodwinked may be a poor cousin to the Shrek franchise, but this made-on-the-cheap computer-animated feature still has more style and snarky gags than Disney's recent CG hit, Chicken Little.
6. A movie that moves quickly, offers a few laughs and keeps the kids quiet for an hour and a half.
7. Shows some self-vindicating spunk and intelligence before it succumbs to a shortfall of ideas.
8. Even though it's basically a 10-minute short puffed up to fill 80 minutes, Hoodwinked has laughs and plenty of them.
9. It's horrible. It's wretched. It's Limburger pickled in castor oil.
10. Bit by bit, we fall asleep.