While the three Twilight Zone-style movies - Dumplings, Cut and Box - are not without merit, they are far from satisfying or truly terrifying.

~ Leanne McGrath -

While the three Twilight Zone-style movies - Dumplings, Cut and Box - are not without merit, they are far from satisfying or truly terrifying.

~ Leanne McGrath -

Eminently watchable for those in the mood for simplistic fare who are prepared to suspend disbelief.

~ Richard Mowe -

Eminently watchable for those in the mood for simplistic fare who are prepared to suspend disbelief.

~ Richard Mowe -

Despite the film’s exuberant silliness, Takashi is always meticulous about his craft.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Despite the film’s exuberant silliness, Takashi is always meticulous about his craft.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A film of considerable depth, intelligence and accomplishment.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

A film of considerable depth, intelligence and accomplishment.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Hara-kiri: Death Of A Samurai is in fact a lesson in artful restraint, slowly and deliberately building to its violent conclusion with a multi-layered narrative of flashback and counter-flashback.

~ Anton Bitel -

Hara-kiri: Death Of A Samurai is in fact a lesson in artful restraint, slowly and deliberately building to its violent conclusion with a multi-layered narrative of flashback and counter-flashback.

~ Anton Bitel -

Small children would delight in this film, but most adults would be horrified by the thought of them seeing it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Small children would delight in this film, but most adults would be horrified by the thought of them seeing it.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This isn’t a big showdown in the style of recent superhero movies, but something far more organic and joyously deranged.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This isn’t a big showdown in the style of recent superhero movies, but something far more organic and joyously deranged.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It comes across like a Japanese version of Performance, with all that studied oddity, sexual mutability, and narrative uncertainty.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It comes across like a Japanese version of Performance, with all that studied oddity, sexual mutability, and narrative uncertainty.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Good for fans, not so good for newcomers.

~ The Remote Viewer -

Good for fans, not so good for newcomers.

~ The Remote Viewer -

Miike clearly has loads of ideas.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Miike clearly has loads of ideas.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Samurai revenge stories are not exactly thin on the ground and it takes something special to get attention today, but Blade Of The Immortal is just that.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Samurai revenge stories are not exactly thin on the ground and it takes something special to get attention today, but Blade Of The Immortal is just that.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ultimately, what you see is what you get in 13 Assassins. Lots of blood and death and despicable cruelty.

~ Robert Munro -

Ultimately, what you see is what you get in 13 Assassins. Lots of blood and death and despicable cruelty.

~ Robert Munro -