Critic consensus:When Marnie Was There is still blessed with enough visual and narrative beauty to recommend, even if it isn't quite as magical as Studio Ghibli's greatest works.

Numbered reviews:1. When Marnie Was There is by no means Ghibli's finest work, but it does inspire that unique Ghibli sense of wonder, warmth and elegance.
2. Yet another splendid escape from the increasingly strenuous glut of computer-animated offerings, this one designed to serve as family entertainment after the more adult-skewing likes of "The Wind Rises" and "The Tale of Princess Kaguya".
3. Wistful and stirringly humane, When Marnie Was There isn't one of Ghibli's greatest films, but it's emblematic of their collective greatness. In a way, that's the most perfect thing it could be.
4. A beautifully animated tale.
5. The film at first plays like a refresher and throwback to Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service, before revealing itself to be less minimal than minor.
6. Like many Ghibli films, its central characters are female, its story a mixture of the quotidian and the remarkable.
7. The journey in Marnie is so pretty that it's unlikely many will pay great mind to [the film's] flaws.
8. Evades the cold computer feel and the un-fairytale-ish adult imposition of inappropriate wisecracks and streetwise teen jive.
9. As a visual (and auditory) experience, When Marnie Was There offers so many other pleasures that audiences may well overlook the story issues. After all, even second-tier Studio Ghibli releases rank among world cinema's finest animated films.
10. Even without its moving parable of emotional repair, When Marnie Was There has all of Ghibli's exquisitely hand-drawn sense of place ...


Critic consensus:Boldly unconventional and refreshingly honest, Diary of a Teenage Girl is a frank coming-of-age story that addresses its themes -- and its protagonist -- without judgment.

Numbered reviews:1. It's work, but it's ultimately rewarding work. It tackles some truths that other movies wouldn't touch, not even with a stick and thick gloves.
2. For an industry that can barely manage to put women in leading roles, The Diary of a Teenage Girl casts a sexually brash 15-year-old as antihero, and succeeds.
3. It dares to show the heroine as something more complicated than a victim. As a result the movie lands somewhere outside the battle lines of contemporary gender politics, which may be why it feels true.
4. Heller's empathy and, let's be honest, her denial of prurience appears to free Powley from embarrassment. She's seizing this part, not shrinking from it.
5. Expect to feel uncomfortable watching Diary of a Teenage Girl, which is precisely the point of this finely etched debut feature by writer/director Marielle Heller.
6. There is a kind of achievement in depicting a sexual relationship between an adult man and his girlfriend's daughter in a way that makes it feel neither predatory nor twisted... Whether it is a thing worth achieving is another question.
7. Well-acted, well-written, well-considered, and very difficult to watch, this is a movie that challenges our expectations and makes us squirm in our seats, as though we're reading someone else's diary, when we know we shouldn't.
8. The Diary of a Teenage Girl is undeniably bold in its candor, but it leaves us feeling empty.
9. This marks an amazingly auspicious debut for Heller, who adapts Gloeckner's novel with uncompromising and unsettling power, despite its slight incursion into a Hollywoodized upbeat ending.
10. Heller's debut directorial effort is incisive and universal, despite its very specific and detailed setting.


Critic consensus:In The Living Daylights, newcomer Timothy Dalton plays James Bond with more debonair seriousness than preceding installments, and the result, is energetic, exciting, and occasionally weighty.

Numbered reviews:
1. Dalton is an engaging Bond, d'Abo is coolly alluring, and Krabbe is the epitome of the double-dealing spy master.
2. Expect the expected.
3. Dalton gets a chance to demonstrate a fascinating, if slightly too actorly take on [James Bond].
4. Dalton is a dapper, dashing and dangerous Bond. And although "Casino Royale's" sophisticated blend of thrills and personal turmoil slightly eludes "Daylights," it's a sign that the producers then had the right instincts if not the full initiative.
5. "Finally, a James Bond movie that Ian Fleming can be proud of. Dalton is a lean, mean and bold Bond. Full of great action and featuring a romantic sub-plot that elevates this above most other 007 adventures."
6. More serious, tougher version of Bond has plenty of violence.
7. With its weak plotting and distinterested performances, this is a misfire on nearly every level.
8. After the fizzle of the later Roger Moore Bonds, The Living Daylights brings in a new 007 in Timothy Dalton, who manages the Connery trick of seeming suave and tough at the same time.
9. ...ultimately comes off as one of the most ineffective and flat-out dull entries within the ongoing series.
10. It was somehow more entertaining than how it sounds.