The Dilated Pupil's Reviews

Quirky Japanese (Redundant?) B&W mob movie.  It was OK but a little to Cerebral for my taste and left me wondering, "Why do people at Criterion feel it's mainstream therefore bad to like movies that are edited properly?" Oh, and Jo Shishido reminds me of Japan's answer to Orson Welles. Anybody?

Everything Wes Anderson has ever touched has been amazing. The story is rather normal-cute but normal. However, the look of the film thanks to the usual Anderson visuals and STOP-MOTION ANIMATION is stunning. For those of you interested, apparently Anderson started making the movie with Henry Selick in 2004 but Selick quit in 2006 to make Coraline with Gaiman which is another amazing film. In short, get off of Facebook and go see these.

First of all, I had no idea what this was about as I was 8 in 1989 when the events discussed in this documentary came to a close. I highly recommend that if you've never seen anything about this case, you watch the movie first.  It blew my mind. This is precisely what documentary filming is about. So, if the only "documentaries" that you watch are made by Michael Moore then you owe it to yourself to check out this movie.