| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 19, 2002

As beautiful as it is wrenching.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 14, 2001

[Salles'] imagery, like his storytelling, is clear, often unaffectedly lovely, and quietly, powerfully haunting.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The movie's success rests largely on the shoulders of Fernanda Montenegro, an actress who successfully defeats any temptation to allow sentimentality to wreck her relationship with the child.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Salles directs simply and watchfully, with an eye that seems to penetrate all the characters who are encountered on Dora's and Josue's journey.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It'll probably work better if you're not terribly familiar with the movies that inspired it.

| Jan 1, 2000

A richly tender and moving experience.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 1, 2000

Fernanda Montenegro gives a landmark performance in the Brazilian film Central Station.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

its blatantly manipulative pairing of an adorable young boy and a selfish, honesty-challenged older woman ... so calculating that I could never get emotionally involved.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

What gives the film its strength is that cutting away the first layer only reveals more levels of toughness; it takes time to discover the pure soul beneath.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Salles, who also works as a documentary filmmaker, does a superlative job of bringing the realism of the streets and the countryside to this narrative fiction.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000