Lisa Alspector

The stylized physiques and movements of the characters in this exciting animated musical-romance-adventure are at once realist and fantastic.

Possibly the most daring and honest drama about sexuality I've ever seen.

A hearty style of self-referential filmmaking that only adds to the persuasiveness of Lillard’s stunning performance.

It's an inspired pairing. Wilson is electric as he seduces Chan into a partnership in this self-consciously crafted western, whose cleverness is only part of what makes it so funny.

Few things are more enthralling than unrequited love, as demonstrated by this drama.

With the devout collaboration of the cast, Williams blurs the boundary between experience and storytelling as if the distinction were not only irrelevant but presumptuous.

This movie restores genre elements to a level of potency that's disturbing, satisfying, and rare as hell.

It's scary and hilarious, with a magical, nonrealist tone, and it emphasizes physical comedy as much as disturbing, beautifully integrated metaphors.

Using archly staged interviews and reconstructions that draw attention to the components of the documentary form, Morris does justice to the complexity of hot-button issues by suggesting several layers of subtext at once, portraying the articulate Leuchter as both rational and prone to rationalize.

Some delicately interwoven and unresolved subplots help make the young character's rite of passage wholly, disturbingly compelling.