question: A richly layered look at the complex interactions between a widowed chef and his daughters, Ang Lee's generational comedy Eat Drink Man Woman offers filmgoers a tasty cinematic treat.

numbered reviews: 1. What makes a movie like this work is how much you care for the characters, and each one here is very well-drawn and fully dimensional.
2. A spicy, well-written comedy about family, food and independence.
3. Lee and his fine ensemble of actors will soon enfold you in a journey of delightful twists and turns. And in the end, a family you'll long remember.
4. Eat Drink Man Woman may not just amuse and entertain you. It's likely to make you very hungry, too-perhaps for more than food.
5. That guarantee of good taste is, finally, a bit of a downer; there are plenty of surprises, but no hint of risk.
6. A remarkably assured comedy-drama of domestic life in Taiwan.
7. Mildly charming.
8. The study of social manners and suppressed feelings became Lee's specialty.
9. Ambitious and entertaining.
10. Ang Lee's two-generational soap opera displays the most elaborate food preparation and the most delectable meals since Like Water for Chocolate.


question: Infinitely Polar Bear handles its thorny themes with a somewhat troublesomely light touch, but Mark Ruffalo's complex performance keeps the drama solidly grounded.

numbered reviews: 1. Infinitely Polar Bear often approaches mental illness as a wacky inconvenience, but Mark Ruffalo's appealingly full-on performance as manic-depressive father Cam Stuart prods the movie into overcoming some shortcomings.
2. The film boasts two of the best child performances so far this year, and Saldana has never been tougher or more vulnerable. Then there's Ruffalo, who demonstrates again why he may be the best actor of his generation.
3. Everyone cries out for a little more character development. Personal tales shouldn't be so thin.
4. By capturing a watershed period in her family life, Forbes also manages to offer a remarkably concise snapshot of the era and its social views on race, class, education, working women and mental illness. And the resilience of children.
5. It's ultimately a feel-good movie with some poignant moments ...
6. Deeply personal and filled with love, Maya Forbes' Infinitely Polar Bear is nonetheless a hard movie to watch - hard to watch comfortably.
7. The cast wins you over in spite of indie-film (or as indie as a film produced by JJ Abrams can be) cliches.
8. [Ruffalo's] gleefully over-the-top performance...anchors a picture on a potentially difficult subject that instead is content to be a manipulative crowd-pleaser, but a moderately engaging one.
9. Engaging and enigmatic, it's an offbeat, feel-good film that tugs at your heartstrings....
10. As Cam Stuart, Mark Ruffalo exploits his versatility to convincingly navigate the wild mood swings of manic depression.


question: Kill Bill is nothing more than a highly stylized revenge flick. But what style!

numbered reviews: 1. Really, it seemed to me that Tarantino was merely trying to shock people into forgetting the idiocracy of what was happening on screen.
2. Tarantino has constructed a highly artificial screen world in which to unfold his funky baroque bloodbath.
3. Kill Bill, Volume 1 is Quentin Tarantino's amazing fourth film and the first chapter of a tantalizing homage to 1970s action and blaxploitation.
4. But if Kill Bill: Volume 1 is the creation of a director with a lot to show, it's also the work of one with not very much to say.
5. An impressive exercise in style but little more.
6. Simply beautiful to look at and listen to.
7. Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu take us to the edge of taste, over the cliffs of gore, and right into pop culture sublime.
8. Divided we fall. What "Kill Bill Vol. 1" loses in plot, tension, and character development it (almost) makes up for in terms of sheer unadulterated style.
9. It boggles the mind that after six years of silence, all Tarantino has to offer is this garbage.
10. As wacky action-adventure movies go, this is a good film. But it's the type of work that more than a dozen Hollywood filmmakers could have turned out in less time than it took [director Quentin] Tarantino.


question: Last Train Home is a haunting, vivid documentary exploring the human toll of China's economic boom in intimate, unforgettable detail.

numbered reviews:
1. Contained in the simple story about one family's progress in the new China is a larger message about globalization and the rapid dismantling of an entire culture.
2. Last Train Home is an intimate portrait of an unfathomable immensity, focusing on a single family caught up in the world's largest mass migration.
3. A riveting and big picture look at the social phenomenon unique to modern-day China and its rise as a capitalist power.
4. This is essential viewing for understanding our world.
5. Sobering documentary examines the plight of migrant workers in China, as seen through the problems of the Zhang family.
6. Tells the story of a family caught, and possibly crushed, between the past and the future--a story that, on its own, is moving, even heartbreaking. Multiplied by 130 million, it becomes a terrifying and sobering panorama of the present.
7. It's depressing enough to watch this family's struggles with life. But their pain really hits home when you think that the pants you might be wearing could have contributed to it.
8. The Zhangs' story is only one among millions, and Fan's portrait serves equally as an indictment of a social and industrial system.
9. Chinese-Canadian director Lixin Fan presents the human cost of China's economic rise in terms any parent or child can understand.
10. Lixin Fan, handling his own cinematography, shoots with such a painterly eye that he almost undermines the social critique he's making.