"The sheer physical immensity of this space threatens to hijack everything else in the film, and it's a testament to Reichardt's directorial intelligence that she lets it, and that she makes it work as part of a larger project."

"Malick invites us to marvel at a universe created for our benefit and an afterlife in which all our cares will be resolved. The best part of the movie – Brad Pitt taunting his sons, willing them to rebel against an authority he doesn't believe he deserves – vanishes behind a scrim of inane space flotsam, while the combination of the two endows Jack's childhood with a world-historical weight it can't possibly bear."

"When you fall in love with someone who is asleep, are you attracted to her spirit, some ineffable essence in her being? Or are you skating on the edge between voyeurism and necrophilia?"

"Boonmee establishes Weerasethakul as our reigning master of the spiritual style: no one else moves across the lines that separate animals from humans and the living from the dead with greater ease or less fuss."

"At the moment of greatest peril, the monks respond by having a little soirée."

#7: "A family drama about the dangers of beekeeping."

My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin (2008); Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 2007); Hommage (Jean-Marie Téno, 1985); Gloria! (Hollis Frampton, 1979); and (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971)

"Today's Rosa Moline would treat her lack of sophistication as a resource and her isolation as a launching pad."

"The doubled Hitchcock mirrors the Hitchcock double, who in turn reflects Hitchcock pretending to play himself."

"When you come at the king, you best not miss."