The best movie in years...

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2007)

... and it's being buried by Universal. If there's any justice, a grassroots groundswell will bring it to people's attention. Literally the best film I've seen in several years. The performances are tremendous, and the layers - entertainment, art, action-suspense flick, futuristic thriller, social and spiritual commentary, subtle religious referencing-cum-subverting - are so many and so rich that you shake your head at the level of craft involved. Cuaron is, for my money, the most gifted of the three very talented Mexican filmmakers working prominently this holiday season. His is the most mature sensibility, the most subtle and accomplished; the ease with which he does so many things at the same time so effortlessly in this movie will take your breath away. Never clichéd, always surprising, and yet each choice is so perfect you can't imagine it having been done differently. A classic - not "instant," because people are discovering it slowly, but a true, true classic.