After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku)

"Such is the finesse of Kore-eda's script that it builds to neither the vehement confrontation nor the comforting reconciliation that melodrama decrees."

"Even long-standing fans of the Japanese filmmaker might be taken aback by the supreme subtlety of his latest, achingly beautiful ode to the quiet complexities of family life."

"Kore-eda looks sensitively at the deep roots of unquenched anguish, but he constructs the characters too neatly and the situations too precisely for the drama to seem like anything but a well-meaning lesson."

"It's a film that sticks with you."

"Filmed and assembled with such wit, economy and precision that nothing in the film is allowed to detract from the absolute perfection of the writing and the performances."

"A sublimely simple family drama from the Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda."

"The filmmaking is so exquisite and the acting so calibrated it sticks with you."

"...touching, subtle,deftly and minutely observed..."