"Lee is a true auteur, and at 61, he remains a defiant, daring, gutsy, visionary filmmaker. "

- Adam Graham, Detroit News

"A ferocious mix of prankishness and cold fury that is one of the director’s strongest yet most entertaining works in years. "

- Ty Burr, Boston Globe

"A kitchen sink and kaleidoscopic study of cultural and institutional racism in America. "

- Oliver Jones, New York Observer

"BlacKkKlansman is one of Spike Lee’s most accomplished films in recent memory, and one of the best films of 2018. "

- Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

"You leave this film shaken, remembering what happened not so very long ago in the name of “very fine people on both sides.” "

- Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

"Veering from a blaxploitation spoof to an undercover thriller and ending with a no-punches-pulled real-life coda, BlacKkKlansman is riotously fun one minute, savagely biting the next. "

- Philip De Semlyen, Time Out

"It is viscerally exciting, fun and saddening all at once. "

- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"As much a compelling black empowerment story as it is an electrifying commentary on the problems of African-American representation across more than a century of cinema. "

- Peter Debruge, Variety

"Accompanied by an expressively lush jazz-blues score by Lee’s regular composer Terence Blanchard, BlacKkKlansman announces from the jump that viewers are in for a lush, sensory treat as Lee plays with the film vernacular he’s manipulated so adroitly and expressively for three decades. "

- Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

"Spike Lee’s hellraiser about a black cop who infiltrated the KKK in the 1970s is also an incendiary indictment of our current Trump moment and one of the best films of the year. A cinema giant has found his voice again and the power to make it heard. "

- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"It’s alternatingly comic, heroic, tragic, horrifying, ridiculous, dead serious, clear-eyed, and confused; it shifts into moments of documentary and even essay film, but it’s also one of Lee’s more entertaining and vibrantly constructed works. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a movie exploit its tonal mismatches so voraciously and purposefully. "

- Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice

"BlacKkKlansman is both hilarious and exquisitely direct, and had it been made before November 2016, you might call Lee’s approach a little alarmist. But if anything, he’s restrained. This is an angry film as well as a hugely entertaining one, and Lee has complete control over its shifting tone, minute by minute. "

- Stephanie Zacharek, Time

"BlacKkKlansman is a furious, funny, blunt and brilliant confrontation with the truth. It’s an alarm clock ringing in the midst of a historical nightmare, and also a symphony, the rare piece of political popular art that works in all three dimensions. "

- A.O. Scott, The New York Times

"Working with longtime editor Barry Alexander Brown, the director casually but fearlessly stirs things up, balancing brutal satiric comedy, unapologetic social commentary, convincing jeopardy, even appealing romance. "

- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

"One of Spike Lee’s best movies. With a dynamite cast, sharp script and pointed humor that underscores real-life, disturbing horrors, it’s an entertaining crime drama that amuses and shocks and invites the audience into a complex and impassioned conversation about the power of racism - and the moving image - to influence our lives. "

- William Bibbiani, IGN

"A charming film of an engaging, adult nature about two very different people trying to press reset in their lives, it is comic, heartfelt and smart as they come — a rare combination these days. "

- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

"Endearing and funny but with a melancholy edge, Juliet, Naked is more than just a rom-com—it’s a movie for and about adults, in all their messy complexity. "

- Kevin Lally, Film Journal International

"Hawke and Byrne have a nice chemistry, handling an offbeat and initially epistolary romance with wary sweetness. Juliet, Naked is surprising in its emotional contours, hitting familiar beats from different angles or, occasionally, taking the story in wholly unexpected directions. "

- Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair

"The film has a lot to say, but it thankfully does it in a manner that is natural, gentle, and if you will, authentic. "

- Josh Kupecki, Austin Chronicle

"Open-hearted and sure to resonate with more than a few viewers, Juliet, Naked roms and coms in the most charmingly honest ways. "

- Brad Wheeler, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

"“Juliet, Naked” is a gently winning romantic comedy, all keyed to a delightful note of indie-rock obsession. "

- Owen Gleiberman, Variety

"It’s everything a mainstream rom-com should be but no longer is — literate, unpredictable, full of bustling tangents. "

- David Edelstein, New York Magazine (Vulture)

"Those who love books, picturesque English villages and getting lost in actors’ faces should be very happy. "

- Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times

"The Bookshop is an exquisitely understated tragicomedy. "

- Simi Horwitz, Film Journal International

"Coixet has a lyrical sense of place, and she has made a charming, well-acted adaptation that ably conjures visual pleasure out of the written word. "

- Ella Taylor, NPR

"it’s beautifully evocative of the musty, inviting smell of a bookshop on a cool day, or of the nostalgic pleasure of old photographs. "

- Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

"Its subversive undercurrent, embodied in fine performances by Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy, is what makes it really interesting. "

- Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter

"Wistful but never sentimental, it quietly turns the fortunes of one little store into a comment on the fate of many. "

- Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times

"Mostly, The Bookshop is a pretext to watch three great actors do their thing: Mortimer, as the film’s mousy but surprisingly formidable heroine; Clarkson, as her smiling adversary, Violet Gamart; and Bill Nighy, as the town’s reclusive loner — and its only voracious reader — Mr. Brundish, who comes to Florence’s aid and advocacy. "

- Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

"It is a smart, supremely watchable and entertaining film, and Close gives a wonderful star turn. "

- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"Like a bomb ticking away toward detonation, Glenn Close commands the center of The Wife: still, formidable and impossible to look away from. "

- Jon Frosch, Hollywood Reporter

"[Close] is a marvel of twisty understatement here, delivering emotions that conceal as much as they reveal, and offering onion-like layers that invite repeat viewings in light of some of the film’s later revelations. "

- Andrew Barker, Variety

"Runge is very good with actors. It’s a pleasure simply to watch Close and Pryce establish such minute and careful gradations of happiness, desolation and exasperation in their scenes together. "

- Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

"‘The Wife’ offers viewers a chance to observe one of the finest - and most criminally underpraised - actresses of her generation working at the very top of her shrewd, subtle, superbly self-controlled game. "

- Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

"‘The Wife’ pulls off the not inconsiderable feat of spinning a fundamentally literary premise into an intelligent screen drama that unfolds with real juice and suspense. "

- Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times

"You can’t take your eyes off Glenn Close. Her tour-de-force as a long-suffering spouse who hits her breaking point might just get her the Oscar that has unfairly eluded her so far. "

- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"West Side Story remains a landmark of musical history. "

- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"How does the film — which won ten Oscars on its 1961 release — stand up now? Very well indeed. "

- Dave Calhoun, Time Out

"It still represents a brave and effective fusion of serious and fantasy elements, and offers two and one-half hours of solid entertainment. "

- James Berardinelli, ReelViews

"Jerome Robbins’s legendary choreography needs the biggest screen it can get; when the movie’s firing on all cylinders of music, lyrics and motion (twice: “America” and “Gee, Officer Krupke”) there’s little to touch it. "

- Tim Robey, The Telegraph

"West Side Story is a beautifully-mounted, impressive, emotion-ridden and violent musical which, in its stark approach to a raging social problem and realism of unfoldment, may set a pattern for future musical presentations. "

- Whitney Willaims, Variety

"West Side Story is a magnificent show, a milestone in movie musicals, a box-office smash. It is so good that superlatives are superfluous. Let it be noted that the film musical, the one dramatic form that is purely American and purely Hollywood, has never been done better. "

- James Powers, The Hollywood Reporter

"This indie, a sweet, tart and smart satire about a family of losers in a world obsessed with winning, is an authentic crowd pleaser. There’s been no more satisfying American comedy this year. "

- David Ansen, Newsweek

"A scrappy human comedy that takes an honest path to laughs and is twice as funny and touching for it. "

- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"The funniest and most gracefully written, acted and directed dysfunctional-American-family farce comedy of the year thus far. "

- Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

"If you think you’ve seen it all before in a family road movie, you owe it to yourself to see what happens when somebody actually comes up with a few bright ideas. "

- Peter Howell, Toronto Star

"It looks at the all-American obsession with winning and chortles darkly. You still come out of the movie wanting to give your family a hug. "

- Ty Burr, Boston Globe

"Little Miss Sunshine triumphs with acting performances that are, across the board, poignant, smart and real. "

- Jennifer Frey, Washington Post

"Little Miss Sunshine employs razor-sharp humor and a deceptively realistic style to satirize a corrupt society that heroes of low status must navigate by their wits alone. "

- Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times

"The casting is flawless. Kinnear has never been better suited to a role; Richard’s gradual surrender of his ego is sweet and totally convincing. Arkin has the best lines, and delivers them with the timing of a vaudeville pro. "

- Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

"A brainy blend of farce and heart, this is one of those movies that veteran moviegoers complain they don’t make anymore. "

- Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter

"A quietly antic dysfunctional family road trip comedy that shoots down the all-American culture of the winner and offers sweet redemption for losers — or at least the ordinary folks often branded as such. "

- David Rooney, Variety