| Avid moviegoers should be singing the director's praises from the rooftops for daring to thrash out the matter in all its imperfect, dark thorniness. |
| Again, as with much of Mahler, it's not so much a matter of the thorniness of the musical material or the opacity of the form, but the emotional content of the piece. |
| But the thorniness of that initial question – is experimentation on one child justified if it benefits multitudes? |
| So does the thorniness of contemporary questions of racial justice. |
| Dry-eyed and observant, it refuses to pity the aged couple at its center, played by James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold with a magnificent thorniness. |
| In their thorniness, however, there is no malice, only some malic acid. |
