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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Nuri Bilge Ceylan, one of Turkey's best directors, has a deep understanding of human nature. He loves his characters and empathizes with them." (Read the full review...) 696 words, 03/07/12
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: EXCELLENT "A metaphysical road movie about life, death and the limits of knowledge... a police investigation that, as miles and words mount, evolves into a plangent, visually stunning meditation on what it is to be human." (Read the full review...) 872 words, 01/04/12 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...gorgeous to look at, intriguing to think about and, at times, hard to sit through. But that's part of its methodology. Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan knows exactly where to guide us even if his characters wander in darkness." (Read the full review...) 171 words, 01/06/12 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...exquisite... a police procedural as existential inquiry, set in a remote dreamscape of mystery and foreboding." (Read the full review...) 421 words, 04/06/12 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...patient viewers will be rewarded, as long as they pay attention. Lots of what at first seems inconsequential is actually of great import -- but director Nuri Bilge Ceylan isn't letting on. And yes, the cinematography is impressive." (Read the full review...) 217 words, 01/04/12 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...seems just about perfect to me in its balance of pictorial and humanistic concerns. The wondrous cinematography is by Gokhan Tiryaki. It is not an easy picture. Not many masterpieces are." (Read the full review...) 716 words, 03/09/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Nuri Bilge Ceylan, one of Turkey's best directors, has a deep understanding of human nature. He loves his characters and empathizes with them." (Read the full review...) 696 words, 03/07/12 J. Hoberman, Village Voice: OUTSTANDING "...impeccably beautiful.... A grand narrative yarn spun from a number of smaller ones... demonstrates the truism that the more we know, the less we understand. Or is it vice versa? Perhaps the greater understanding is admitting how little we can know." (Read the full review...) 685 words, 01/04/12 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "This painstaking but gorgeously realized police procedural by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the Turkish poet of the long take, nods to Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' " (Read the full review...) 729 words, 03/02/12 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...exceptional - a gorgeously shot crime story with emotionally layered characters and an indelible atmosphere of unease." (Read the full review...) 621 words, 03/02/12 Phil Coldiron, LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...a pinnacle of HD photography.... It's also a structural marvel, a beeline toward justice built of curlicues and digressions into local color that eventually reveal the film to be flailing against itself with Pynchonian grace." (Read the full review...) 210 words, 11/03/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "If you've been conditioned by years of cookie-cutter television to need a resolution in 45 minutes, it'll have you climbing the walls. But if you're open to other possibilities, there's great stuff going on here." (Read the full review...) 227 words, 03/01/12
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...austerely bewitching... explores not just matters of life and death, but also the nature of truth and lies, beauty and ugliness, guilt and innocence and good vs. evil." (Read the full review...) 515 words, 05/11/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...epic in its aims and achievements yet modest in its resources: some superb actors, stunning landscapes and a resonant, understated script." (Read the full review...) 269 words, 03/02/12 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "The art-filmmaking that's come out of Romania in the last decade has clearly made an impression on Nuri Bilge Ceylan." (Read the full review...) 775 words, 05/18/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: VERY GOOD (cg) "Ceylan is illuminating not just a crime here, but a culture, and that the men provide a cross-section of Turkish society - from workers to professionals, from the devout to the secular - only underlines its portrait of a confused nation." (Read the full review...) 421 words, 01/04/12 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "...colossally, memorably and audaciously boring, but if you stick with it - and I am not advising this - something may happen." (Read the full review...) 310 words, 02/10/12 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan ('Three Monkeys,' 'Climates') has a fine cast on hand, and he's not afraid to let uncertainty linger in the air, just as it does in the real world." (Read the full review...) 166 words, 02/17/12
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: OUTSTANDING "...impeccably beautiful.... A grand narrative yarn spun from a number of smaller ones... demonstrates the truism that the more we know, the less we understand. Or is it vice versa? Perhaps the greater understanding is admitting how little we can know." (Read the full review...) 685 words, 01/04/12 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...the search is internal, through the guilty, grieving memories of the investigators, ending with an excavation of a grislier kind." (Read the full review...) 157 words, 05/10/12 Phil Coldiron, LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...a pinnacle of HD photography.... It's also a structural marvel, a beeline toward justice built of curlicues and digressions into local color that eventually reveal the film to be flailing against itself with Pynchonian grace." (Read the full review...) 210 words, 11/03/11 Scott Tobias, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Ceylan wends his way toward a couple of devastating revelations that question the value of knowing the truth. For a murder procedural, a genre that ends with cases closed, that counts as heresy." (Read the full review...) 398 words, 01/05/12 Michelle Orange, Movieline: EXCELLENT (cg) "Tectonic pacing builds to a series of imperceptible and yet earth-moving moments.... Silence and sound are deployed as artfully as Ceylan's sweeping master shots are." (Read the full review...) 828 words, 01/05/12 Andrew Schenker, Slant: WEAK (cg) "...for all the filmmaker's increased ambition, this is one project that plays not as a coherent vision of the absurdity of the world, nor a ground-level accumulation of pointed details, but instead a static, faux moral reckoning dictated from on high." (Read the full review...) 525 words, 10/01/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "If you've been conditioned by years of cookie-cutter television to need a resolution in 45 minutes, it'll have you climbing the walls. But if you're open to other possibilities, there's great stuff going on here." (Read the full review...) 227 words, 03/01/12
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: EXCELLENT "A metaphysical road movie about life, death and the limits of knowledge... a police investigation that, as miles and words mount, evolves into a plangent, visually stunning meditation on what it is to be human." (Read the full review...) 872 words, 01/04/12 Ella Taylor, NPR: OUTSTANDING "...ravishingly atmospheric... about the entanglement of life's big-ticket dramas with the red tape that comes with getting through the day.... it's the distractions and elisions, not the official stories, that carry the existential weight of the days of our lives." (Read the full review...) 741 words, 01/04/12 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...exquisite... a police procedural as existential inquiry, set in a remote dreamscape of mystery and foreboding." (Read the full review...) 421 words, 04/06/12 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: EXCELLENT "...subtle, gorgeous and mysterious... may be director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's masterwork to date.... like a mini-voyage into Turkey's inaccessible past, a vision of almost religious intensity that is redolent with possible meanings but never explained." (Read the full review...) 568 words, 01/04/12
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: GOOD "...a meditative procedural that expands what would normally consume the first five minutes of a 'Law & Order' episode into a slow-moving, nearly three-hour portrait of men at work, taking stock of the enormous social and moral burdens they bear." (Read the full review...) 858 words, 05/20/11 Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "A long, slow haul but for the willing, a haunting journey into the heart of darkness in Turkish Anatolia." (Read the full review...) 775 words, 05/21/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...exquisite... a police procedural as existential inquiry, set in a remote dreamscape of mystery and foreboding." (Read the full review...) 421 words, 04/06/12 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: EXCELLENT (cg) "...requires tremendous patience and attention... But trust me, you will be rewarded at the end with a multi-layered, multi-nuanced narrative that raises some disturbing and provocative questions about the nature of 'truth,' and why and how we go about finding and achieving it." (Read the full review...) 615 words, 01/04/12 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: EXCELLENT "A metaphysical road movie about life, death and the limits of knowledge... a police investigation that, as miles and words mount, evolves into a plangent, visually stunning meditation on what it is to be human." (Read the full review...) 872 words, 01/04/12
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