It’s easy to forget, nonetheless, that the movie offers more rewards than a dazzling superstructure. It’s beautifully shot, vividly performed and is ultimately an arresting pop treatise on the impossibility of objective truth.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 9, 2023

Unmissable.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 17, 2010

What Akira Kurosawa and his tiny production team wrought is now an accepted maxim of modern life, a creed by which to live in a world where everyone has a blog and an opinion.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 22, 2010

Not many movies make such an impact that their names enter into the language. Rashomon is such a movie

| Mar 2, 2010

Akira Kurosawa's four-way account of a man's murder has become so associated with its central device %u2014 not to mention its myriad offshoots %u2014 that it requires an effort to see it only for itself.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 19, 2009

Film buffs should love it. But so should anyone who appreciates a good yarn or two (or three or four).

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 13, 2009

Rashomon is a novel, stimulating moviegoing experience, and a sure sign that U.S. film importers will be looking hard at Japanese pictures from now on.

| Apr 20, 2009

This caused a flurry in critical circles for its brilliance of conception, technique, acting and its theme of passion.

| Oct 16, 2008

Kurosawa is always worth a look but this is a particular classic that has influenced so much to come, it's almost essential.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2008

An impressive piece of work, visually and rhythmically masterful.

| Feb 21, 2008

Its virtues are still plentiful: Kurosawa's visual style at its most muscular, rhythmically nuanced editing, and excellent performances.

| Feb 9, 2006

It's not often that a movie title enters the common vernacular, but these days when we describe something as Rashomon-like we are referring to this movie's presentation of multiple versions of the truth.

| Oct 1, 2003

Much of the power of the picture -- and it unquestionably has hypnotic power -- derives from the brilliance with which the camera of director Akira Kurosawa has been used.

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 13, 2002

The wonder of Rashomon is that while the shadowplay of truth and memory is going on, we are absorbed by what we trust is an unfolding story.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 1, 2002

What Kurosawa implies in this haunting film is that in the retelling, inevitably every man will make himself out to be the hero or villain of the story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 26, 1951