Henry Cabot Beck

Audiences willing to wade knee deep in the muck and mire of the human abyss are advised to seek out Humanité at the local arthouse.

A terrific piece of neo-realistic filmmaking.

Perhaps the most remarkable documentary project ever undertaken, and certainly the longest, is Michael Apted's Up series, which he began shooting for the BBC in 1962.

Resonates with the fluorescent horror of real-life high school, something few movies about this generation have managed to successfully capture.

A minimum of fuss and a welcome lack of clichés. For these things alone, Tumbleweeds should be not only praised, but seen

Every bit as reverent as "Schindler's List," and no less successful.

The design of the film is wonderful, the animation everything one comes to expect from a Disney picture, and the jokes fly by so fast.

Unlikely to draw the audience it deserves, but those who do see it will have a hard time shaking its gentle, ghostly echoes.

Westerners may find the religious aspects wearying and a little fantastic. The Color of Paradise is both parable and fable, a retelling of Isaac and Abraham.

By no means any kind of masterpiece, but viewed as one might any number of American or European independents of similar theme and nature, it not only stands its ground, but is at times one or two notches better than many of them.