question: Despite its deceptive wispiness, this delicately lovely and melancholy film about loneliness has a haunting power.

numbered reviews: 1. An aesthetically appealing anatomy of loneliness and aloneness by a Japanese filmmaker with a keen eye for the nuances of human nature.
2. Jun Ichikawa's quiet film has a power that resonates. It gives loneliness a cinematic canvas.
3. Tony Takitani conveys a powerfully tangible sense of loss and loneliness. In both concrete and existential terms, it's a film that dwells on what the dead leave behind and how the living carry on.
4. A haunting and exquisitely composed ode to the cellblocks that people build for themselves: prisons of loneliness and dependency, routine and material substitutes.
5. Whether you view it as a metaphor for a country or a singular study of the human condition, Tony Takitani explores the borders between solitude and loneliness, hunger and consumption, memory and loss.
6. Tony Takitani, fablelike and beautiful, requires a certain amount of patience, but its small, peculiar charms work their way into your soul.
7. Tony Takitani is an exquisite film, as elegant and precise as an impeccably cut diamond.
8. The movie's underlying theme is the complex relationship between objects and memories, worked out through a taut, compelling story and superbly understated acting.
9. It's a marvelously moody meditation, beautiful to look at and beautiful to ponder as the camera slowly pans from one scene to the next, framing life as still life.
10. The film gestures toward our understanding of deep matters -- grief, solitude, and the process by which people build and express their very selves -- and it does so with a commendably steady, gentle hand.


question: Those who enjoy Adam Sandler's schtick will find plenty to love in this gleefully juvenile take on professional golf; those who don't, however, will find it unfunny and forgettable.

numbered reviews: 1. It may smell awful from a distance, especially if you have low tolerance for lowbrow humor, but up close this yarn about an unlikely golf star is fairly painless.
2. Fluff, but enjoyable fluff.
3. You don't feel that Sandler and director Dennis Dugan are trying for the kind of subversiveness that might just make Happy's brutal anarchy more effective.
4. Happy Gilmore does often make the viewer burst out laughing.
5. To my own surprise, I laughed a lot.
6. It's just a minor little film that you forget until the next Adam Sandler flick comes along.
7. As dumb as Caddyshack was, though, it seems like George Bernard Shaw compared to this poor stepchild. Back to stand-up, Adam Sandler.
8. A lame, unoriginal comedy that may offer a few scattered chuckles, but more often than not, serves up a bewildering series of bizarre non-jokes, supposedly ironic product placement, cheesy music cues, and tired sight gags.
9. The Happy Gilmore character is strange. I guess we are supposed to like him.
10. Sandler's movie is worth a few laughs, but not many of the comic sequences are original, and even fewer are inspired.


question: Critics think that But I'm a Cheerleader could have been better. The acting is stiff at times and the plot is surprisingly unoriginal.

numbered reviews: 1. Crushingly obvious and abysmally unfunny.
2. Ungainly sentiment and unnecessary stylization.
3. ...the film plays gay stereotypes as broad farce and middle class fear as frantic panic, but there's no bite beyond the cartoonish laughs.
4. Any self-respecting lesbian should rear up in horror at [this movie].
5. Something needs straightening out here.
6. But I'm a Cheerleader is funny.
7. It's the year's funniest, most absurd sight gag.
8. Cheerleader is certainly refreshing.
9. The edgy dialogue keeps the film fresh, lively and light.
10. It is just as torturous watching this film, as it probably is going through such an indoctrination program.


question: An oddball comedy that revels in its silliness and memorable catch phrases, Wayne's World is also fondly regarded because of its endearing characters.

numbered reviews:
1. Very funny SNL spinoff. Don't miss the Bohemian Rhapsody scene
2. Myers and Carvey cut it up on the rare Saturday Night Live skit that shines on the silver screen.
3. A classic comedy! Proves Mike Myers was funny once.
4. This movie is stupid, but in a smart way: it's supposed to be stupid! Party on!
5. The trick with Wayne's World that seems to cross age and gender in terms of enjoyment is that the characters are endearing.
6. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll drive home. As Wayne or Garth would say, it's schweeeet.
7. Mike Myers got better later
8. A bit dated these days, but still worth a schwing.
9. Wears out its welcome after awhile and is never quite as funny as it thinks it is.
10. Even at 95 minutes the film is often too slow and just not rewarding enough.