Magical, baffling, mirthful, sublime -- it’s everything it’s cracked up to be.

| Nov 7, 2013

Weerasethakul's sincerity is evident, though the film's meditative pace and vague philosophical undertones will not be for everyone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 16, 2011

This is a film that wants to be interesting, and it certainly is that. Whether you want to dine with the ghost and the monkey-man or not, they bring a new perspective to the table.

| Original Score: B | Apr 29, 2011

As is to be expected, Weerasethakul frequently abandons the story for trancelike contemplations of nature, but never before in his work has the device felt more purposeful.

| Apr 29, 2011

While the result is pretty much the definition of a film that should be experienced, not explained, there's no sense here that Weerasethakul is being difficult for difficult's sake, or even attempting to conceal his mysteries.

| Apr 29, 2011

It playfully invokes both the lifestyle and animistic beliefs of the Northeast country folk, and the primitive magic of early Thai cinema, relating both of these to his musings on reincarnation.

| Apr 29, 2011

If you are open, even in fancy, to the idea of ghosts who visit the living, this film is likely to be a curious but rather bemusing experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 15, 2011

What would pass for longueurs in another director's movie become commands for rumination here.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 7, 2011

It takes a while to get used to Joe's peculiar style of filmmaking, but once you do, you'll go with the flow, not worrying about the abstractness of the plot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2011

If you can weather some slow patches (and there are plenty), this boldly original, oddly affecting meditation on the afterlife will reward you with moments of profundity that will linger in your consciousness (or subconsciousness) for a lifetime...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2011

A special taste, dreamlike and sometimes opaque, or at least translucent, to logical analysis.

| Mar 3, 2011

"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" is a one-of-a-kind mixture of the extraordinary and the everyday.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2011

A moving, gently reassuring tale that softens the boundaries between humanity and nature, life and the afterlife.

| Original Score: A | Mar 3, 2011

Spirit, animal, and human worlds coexist in dreamy harmony in this remarkable drama, winner of the 2010 Cannes Palme d'Or.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 2, 2011

The key is to let yourself go with the meandering current of its narrative.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Mar 2, 2011

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Palme d'Or winner is freaky and fascinating.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 2, 2011

Instead of nostalgia for vanished magic, there is the recognition that magic is always present if we know where and how to look. Mr. Weerasethakul certainly knows where to look and is generous enough to share some of what he sees.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 2, 2011

A work of unostentatious beauty and uncloying sweetness, at once sophisticated and artless, mysterious and matter-of-fact, cosmic and humble.

| Mar 1, 2011

The slightly muzzy, blended photography is often beautiful, and an aura of the uncanny-the spirit life entering the everyday-is strangely affecting.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2011

Uncle Boonmee is entrancing-and also, if you're not sufficiently steeped in its rhythms, narcotizing.

| Feb 28, 2011