“Even in Allen’s usual neurotic nattering there is an underlying admission that it is a futile distraction from the strife and violence inherent in the marriages and relationships the film examines.”

“Neither of them want to be where they are; what they have most in common is that neither of them can really think of a place they'd rather be.”

“The story has a fragile melancholy to it. Wong Kar Wai is an artist obsessed with how timing can kill or create love out of anywhere.”

“Unsurprisingly, the Australian maxim ‘She'll be right’ is not found in the official NASA handbook. Nor is blaming ‘the bloody pie warmer' for the back-up generator failing.”

“It’s not so much that we don’t know what’s happened to the boys; everyone in Mississippi could tell you that.”

“Varda demonstrates her immense talent and dexterity, constructing an alluring, delicate, meringue-like exterior for a film filled with bitter and suffocating ruminations on gender and society.”

“American Beauty’s dialogue perfectly walks the tightrope between creating comedic caricatures and lending its characters a much deeper sense of humanity.”

“The conversation about mental health creeps into the film bit by bit until, by the end when Frank's identity is finally revealed and the dysfunctional truth, previously shrouded in a sort of hipster zaniness, comes out, you realise that it’s the film's focus.”