The film is built from a series of short scenes, a technique that allows the story to unfold gradually as the connections among the characters are revealed.

The end result is a pretty strong argument for the transfer of just about everything to blu-ray.

The animation is sharp and stylish and there's no lack of either pageantry or action sequences.

Although it shows the artist at work and interviews him about his life, to its everlasting credit the film doesn’t try to explain Nara's creative process.

Lovely by Surprise is an odd, odd movie with a lot of charm.

Zenovich finds plenty of guilt to spread around to others involved in the case.

The most obvious answer as to why Sakia Gunn's story did not receive wider coverage is that both victim and assailant were African-American, and Black-on-Black crime in Newark simply isn't news to most of the nation.

The kids become reporters for Franklin's newspaper, which allows them to experience most of the major events of the Revolutionary period and meet everyone from Patrick Henry to Phyllis Wheatley.

If you're given to conspiracy theories about governments, corporations, modern medicine, or nanotechnology, you'll find your worst nightmares fulfilled in this story.

The writers are able to mix humor and drama seamlessly in the final episodes—a grand culmination to a talent that has spanned the entire series.

InuYasha is a case study in how to keep a long series going.