Nobody Knows substitutes an emotional sucker-punch of too much knowledge and no easy fixes.

Full Review | May 7, 2020

Although it's perhaps overlong, Nobody Knows is shot with Ozu-esque beauty over four seasons and exceptionally acted by its non-professional cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2019

Yuya Yogira is remarkable, a screen debut as exciting as Jean Pierre Leaud's in The 400 Blows.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Mar 22, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Those who can tolerate slower rhythms will appreciate Kore-eda's patient approach. And all will admire his handling of the children.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2007

It's rather slow and a bit overlong (139 minutes), it may not be for everyone, but for viewers with the patience, the rewards are many.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2006

Rarely has a kid's-eye view of the adult world been captured with such innocence and insight.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Makes you weep for humanity's lack of humanity, but in doing so it reveals your own humanity in the concerns that honestly surface from within you as you watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 2, 2006

While this could be the stuff of tabloid fodder at the one extreme or family fare uplift at the other, it is actually an observational meditation on childhood lost with universal applications.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2005

Despite the downbeat premise, the director focuses on his characters' momentary pleasures.

Full Review | Original Score: 63/100 | Sep 20, 2005

Photographed in static shots that never cast judgement, the child actors have a naturalism that makes familiarity emotionally charged.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2005

Hirokazu dwells on the resiliency of children, a theme that also resonated in Small Change and which gives the film a lightness not inherent in the subject matter.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 6, 2005

Has a sweetly mournful feel, and it's well-performed throughout; still, it's a long time to spend in limbo.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2005

Profoundly metaphorical and almost unbearably heart-wrenching in its recognition of the essential aloneness of life...

Full Review | Original Score: '4/4' | May 27, 2005

A moving, subtle and poignant story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2005

Kore-eda coaxes gorgeously realistic portrayals from the children.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 28, 2005

A winsome documentary-like detailed study about four abandoned youngsters in Tokyo.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Apr 24, 2005

The rare film that successfully tells its tale of childhood from the children's point of view.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2005

A moving, excruciating, and compelling drama about four little anti-heroes who try to make the best of their hopeless situation.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 22, 2005

A powerful, engrossing, downright haunting motion picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 15, 2005