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This late-career anthology by Akira Kurosawa often confirms that Dreams are more interesting to the dreamer than their audience, but the directorial master still delivers opulent visions with a generous dose of heart.
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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (9)
There's greatness in the film's first hour. March 4, 2013 | Full Review…
There's greatness in the film's first hour.
Terrence Rafferty
In the uneven career of Akira Kurosawa, two limiting factors were sentimentality and preachiness, and both come to the fore in this 1990 collection of eight dreams. February 9, 2007 | Full Review…
In the uneven career of Akira Kurosawa, two limiting factors were sentimentality and preachiness, and both come to the fore in this 1990 collection of eight dreams.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Only during a final procession does the old Kurosawa magic get a brief look-in, but by then the hackneyed moralising and dramatic languor have ensured that, despite the well-meaning message, it's hard to care. June 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Only during a final procession does the old Kurosawa magic get a brief look-in, but by then the hackneyed moralising and dramatic languor have ensured that, despite the well-meaning message, it's hard to care.
Geoff Andrew
It's something altogether new for Kurosawa, a collection of short, sometimes fragmentary films that are less like dreams than fairy tales of past, present and future. The magical and mysterious are mixed with the practical, funny and polemical. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
It's something altogether new for Kurosawa, a collection of short, sometimes fragmentary films that are less like dreams than fairy tales of past, present and future. The magical and mysterious are mixed with the practical, funny and polemical.
Vincent Canby
It is a satisfying summation of a well-spent career. March 10, 2003 | Full Review…
It is a satisfying summation of a well-spent career.
Marjorie Baumgarten
Dreams will knock your eyes out without ignoring the mind and heart. May 12, 2001
Dreams will knock your eyes out without ignoring the mind and heart.
Peter Travers
Experimental cinema that feels relevant only if you really need to explore the mind of a master. But that's it. [Full review in Spanish]. July 1, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Experimental cinema that feels relevant only if you really need to explore the mind of a master. But that's it. [Full review in Spanish].
Federico Furzan
For all its expensive production values, simplicity of emotion seems to be the keynote -- as it was in Shakespeare's last plays. January 16, 2020 | Full Review…
For all its expensive production values, simplicity of emotion seems to be the keynote -- as it was in Shakespeare's last plays.
Mark Le Fanu
Dreams might be minor Kurosawa, but it's still a fascinating achievement. December 29, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Dreams might be minor Kurosawa, but it's still a fascinating achievement.
Nathanael Hood
Dreams should be seen for the exercise that it gives the imagination, not for its thumping didactic content. September 5, 2018 | Full Review…
Dreams should be seen for the exercise that it gives the imagination, not for its thumping didactic content.
Hilary Mantel
Rarely in cinema has the raw personal and symbolic power of dreaming been so effectively captured as in Akira Kurosawa's 1990 feature ... Kurosawa's late film beautifully evokes the short and often baffling nature of dreaming. January 16, 2017 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Rarely in cinema has the raw personal and symbolic power of dreaming been so effectively captured as in Akira Kurosawa's 1990 feature ... Kurosawa's late film beautifully evokes the short and often baffling nature of dreaming.
Christopher Machell
while not necessarily among Kurosawa's best, is still a remarkable achievement that draws you deep into its fantastical world; even the least effective bits still work in their own way December 7, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
while not necessarily among Kurosawa's best, is still a remarkable achievement that draws you deep into its fantastical world; even the least effective bits still work in their own way
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