Ellen Page

Skews just enough toward Death and the Maiden and away from Saw III.

The simplest way to sum up the greatness of Inception is to identify it as a new classic of science-fiction cinema (and, for that matter, the heist genre).

More distressing are Allen’s regressive treatment of women...and an off-putting solipsism.

Intrigues not with good guy-bad guy shtick, but with the conundrum of how to live morally in an inherently immoral West.

What makes [it] more than just a thrilling science-fiction actioner is the past-present poignancy allowed by time travel and astral projection, indulging everyone's fantasy of telling a younger self what he or she needs to hear.

No movie can fully suppress the talents of Moore, Page, and Shannon, but in Ron Nyswaner’s script, every theme gets put in a character’s mouth, and every plot point gets telegraphed, mailed, emailed, and texted ahead of its arrival.