While the movie has taut, chilling moments, most of the time it appears to mirror the shell-shocked trauma of its characters.

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| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2001

Aoyama needs to put the editing into other hands.

Full Review | May 11, 2001

This is a film to visually savor.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2001

You feel time slipping through your fingers, but, gorgeous and studied to a fault, the film doesn't give you time to look down at your hands.

| May 4, 2001

Its rewards are greater than any bright-and-tight Hollywood movie you've seen so far this year.

| May 4, 2001

Don't let the running time scare you away from the exceptional bit of filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 4, 2001

To watch this film, in short, can be a transforming experience.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 4, 2001

The very un-Western style middle- and long-shot camera perspectives favored by Aoyama are quietly apt.

| Original Score: B+ | May 4, 2001

Might have made a good two-hour movie, but nearly every shot is twice as long as needed.

Full Review | May 4, 2001

Frequently extraordinarily moving.

| May 4, 2001

While director Shinji Aoyama's style is understated, meditative and deliberate, he manages to grab the viewer from the very beginning, and rarely lets go.

| May 4, 2001

The first film this year in which there is obvious greatness.

Full Review | May 4, 2001

The delight and the exasperation of Eureka come from the same source: its willingness to take its time and explore every detour.

| May 4, 2001

Begins to develop a peculiar power that draws you gradually into the shattered psyches of Makoto, the bus driver, and the two children.

Full Review | May 3, 2001

It's not for the popcorn crowd, but it does reward the mature, patient viewer.

Full Review | May 3, 2001

It's more an experience than anything else, and if you're looking for a transformative, redemptive one yourself, at the moment you can't do any better than go to see this film.

Full Review | May 3, 2001

Its vision is unique and harrowing, its song hits to the heart.

Full Review | May 3, 2001

It makes one believe that intimate human connections are possible, that empathy is worth struggling for.

Full Review | May 2, 2001