| The violence is superbly done, except when Mendes gives way to a tendency to lyricize it. |
| But Holmes was the first to lyricize the lure of stereopsis, and to grapple imaginatively with its dramatic potential: I scale the huge mountain-crystal that calls itself the Pyramid of Cheops. |
| As in his previous film, Central Station, another road movie and a great one, Salles doesn't try to lyricize landscapes or fill them with portentous menace or serenity. |
| What comfort is it to the relatives of the Sabra and Shatila victims, you might ask, that a few conscripts who stood by and did nothing are now free to articulate, and even to lyricize, their internal pain? |
