For all its expensive production values, simplicity of emotion seems to be the keynote -- as it was in Shakespeare's last plays.

| Jan 16, 2020

There's greatness in the film's first hour.

| Mar 4, 2013

In the uneven career of Akira Kurosawa, two limiting factors were sentimentality and preachiness, and both come to the fore in this 1990 collection of eight dreams.

| Feb 9, 2007

Only during a final procession does the old Kurosawa magic get a brief look-in, but by then the hackneyed moralising and dramatic languor have ensured that, despite the well-meaning message, it's hard to care.

| Jun 24, 2006

It's something altogether new for Kurosawa, a collection of short, sometimes fragmentary films that are less like dreams than fairy tales of past, present and future. The magical and mysterious are mixed with the practical, funny and polemical.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2003

It is a satisfying summation of a well-spent career.

| Mar 10, 2003

Dreams will knock your eyes out without ignoring the mind and heart.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

A magnificent, immensely absorbing experience.

| Jan 1, 2000

It's dreamy only in one respect: It's a snooze.

| Jan 1, 2000