1. The first two-thirds of the movie are absolutely delightful, but once the gears of the arguably too clever plot begin to grind, 'While We're Young' loses some of its appeal.
2. "While We're Young" is clever and sharp, but it's also uncommonly generous for a Baumbach film towards all its characters. That kindness must be a byproduct of getting older.
3. Baumbach, whose films include the searingly funny, autobiographical The Squid and the Whale and the brilliantly uncomfortable Margot at the Wedding, writes wry, sharp, poignant stuff.
4. Baumbach has more fun struggling with the deeper questions than he's ever had before, and the result is an open-hearted, quick-witted take on old problems in new times.
5. Baumbach plays with universal themes about the uncertainty of aging, the elusive nature of "cool" and the acceptance that comes with settling down ...
6. Yes, both characters have some major, character-defining flaws, but Baumbach observes the two men with unexpected sympathy.
7. When "Young" is good, it is delicious, playing on 40-somethings' resistance to being considered "middle-aged."
8. For a while much of this contemporary comedy is great fun - until the party ends and you're ready for these people to go home.
9. Sharp editing, a masterful attention to pace and wonderful performances.
10. While We're Young starts off as an empathetic, funny look at middle age and winds up as profound and schematic as a Neil Simon play - or, for the younger set, an episode of The New Girl.
Poignant and piercingly honest, While We're Young finds writer-director Noah Baumbach delivering some of his funniest lines through some of his most relatable characters.

1. Inventive, original and very, very funny.
2. Paul Giamatti seems to crawl into Harvey Pekar's skin. While not resembling Pekar physically, he's got that curmudgeonly attitude down pat.
3. Makes a good case for the constructiveness of working out the questions, issues, and problems one faces in life through the output of art.
4. Sweet, funny and off-kilter, American Splendor blurs the boundaries between documentary and drama, creating something striking and original.
5. Paul Giamatti, with a stunning leading-man confidence and sincerity... turns a sad-sack depressive into the unlikeliest champion of the mundane.
6. American Splendor is one of the best cinematic depictions of an artist and his work that I ever recall seeing.
7. Um filme auto-referencial e com vбrias camadas de realidade e ficзгo que se entrecruzam de maneira inteligente e dinвmica.
8. Now, that's art.
9. American Splendor, if not entirely new in every single respect, at the very least feels remarkably fresh and exciting for a story that's essentially about a fortysomething curmudgeon.
10. For all of Harvey's talk about authenticity, this film is as fake as they come.
Exhilarating both stylistically and for its entertaining, moving portrayal of an everyman, American Splendor is a portrait of a true underground original.

1. 'Overlong, but what makes the film's length more endurable is the impeccable acting of its cast.'
2. Ray boasts a great smorgasbord of music and a fine performance by Jamie Foxx but is hobbled by a mediocre screenplay and its long playing time.
3. An emphatically entertaining, toe-tapping cautionary tale about how drug addiction is more crippling than any physical handicap.
4. It's the music that keeps me drawn into the film, followed closely by Jamie Foxx's soulful (in both senses of the word) performance.
5. Anchored by Foxx's astonishingly powerful performance, this moving and engaging biographical film ... is also director Hackford's finest film.
6. '...the audience feels as though this is the real Ray Charles playing himself. I can't say anything more than that in tribute to Jamie Foxx's outstanding work.'
7. Eminently worth seeing.
8. Jamie Foxx's all-encompassing performance in the title role more than justifies the early Oscar gossip it has generated.
9. [Foxx's] peerless work elevates this otherwise ordinary biopic, which is plagued by stiff dialogue and hokey imagery.
10. ...a case of a star performance outshining the movie. Foxx is like a virtuoso headline act backed up by a band that wanders in and out of key.
An engrossing and energetic portrait of a great musician's achievements and foibles, Ray is anchored by Jamie Foxx's stunning performance as Ray Charles.

1. The most effective scene is Chang's brilliant time-lapsed filming of the Yangtze River rising and engulfing the embankment.
2. An astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history amid China's economic miracle.
3. Should not be missed.
4. There's plenty for the director to focus on. Examining the dam's environmental impact alone would take another whole movie. Instead, [director] Yung trains his lens mainly on the cultural impact.
5. Visually stunning, this documentary by Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang is part travelogue, part social critique of China's economic miracle and the sweeping cultural changes it is forcing in its wake.
6. Chang gracefully juxtaposes the country and the metropolitan to express the knotted-up mixture of anguish, anger, hope, and trepidation of those in the dammed river's wake.
7. This, the film argues, is the way of the future: One form of poverty-stricken squalor replaced by a tackier, more plasticized life of similarly deadend subservience, all in the guise of economic progress.
8. Myth and reality, past and present, tradition and progress go head to head in Yung Chang's remarkable documentary about China's longest river, Up the Yangtze.
9. The tone is finally one of wistful resignation.
10. Up the Yangtze provides a devastating view of top-down, broad-stroke social programs.

Up the Yangtze is a visually stunning meditation about the changes confronting modern China.