11.   In its dreamlike way, it says more than any film this year about identity and isolation.

12.   In recent years film, theater and television audiences have largely lost track of Walters.

13.   It is one of a spate of films this year either in release or in the pipeline that turn on war or invoke a military motif or milieu.

14.   Like clockwork, he releases one film every year, usually in the fall or winter, his annual strike against the threats of mortality.

15.   Mercado said that he has plans for a feature film this year.

16.   No film this year seems to put so charming a trio onscreen so effortlessly.

17.   She has done it in two films this year.

18.   The ensemble acting surpasses that of any other film this year.

19.   The most intoxicatingly perverse scene in films this year, it sets a benchmark others will ape in trying to create a plangent comic reality.

20.   What makes the Stone, Leigh and Shue films this year so much more interesting than any of these earlier movie versions is that they reverse the Hollywood tradition.