Kis Uykusu 2014

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: Beautiful to look at, with its burnished interiors and magnificent Turkish steppes, this long film builds to a powerful conclusion. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: Nuri Bilge Ceylan is at the peak of his powers with Winter Sleep, a richly engrossing and ravishingly beautiful magnum opus that surely qualifies as the least boring 196-minute movie ever made. Read more

Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: Bilginer gives a truly towering performance as Aydin-arguably the year's best, across all categories. Read more

Peter Keough, Boston Globe: Such miserable people; why should we care? Maybe because Ceylan does. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Probably the finest (and paradoxically, least faithful) Chekhov adaptation on film. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: These scenes are talky, yes, but what talk! Read more

Joe McGovern, Entertainment Weekly: Winter Sleep crackles like a hearth fire-it's a slow but incandescent burn. Read more

Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: The esoteric world of masterful Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan proves as vibrant and uneasy as ever in Winter Sleep, a Chekhovian meditation on a marriage that returns to the mood of the director's early films like Climates and Clouds of May. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: "Winter" feels very much like an epic novel, mirroring the pacing and themes of Chekov, whose work was its inspiration. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Ceylan paces this thin dramatic sketch as if it were a Wagner opera, with ponderous pauses and fraught gazes yearning toward depths that the movie doesn't reach. Read more

Ella Taylor, NPR: My favorite movie of 2014 is three hours long, and it's about Turkish people who live in caves. Read more

Graham Fuller, New York Daily News: "Winter Sleep" won't appeal to action lovers, but if you like endless verbal warfare, this is a joy. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Despite Mr. Bilginer's dug-in performance and the haunting grandeur of Aydin's world, this is finally a character too small to see. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Intimate, spectacular and masterful ... Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Think of it as dramatic slow-cooking where the ingredients take their time to come together. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Ceylan spins gold in thought and image, set to the mournful strains of Schubert's Piano Sonata No. 20, with this impeccably acted morality tale of a wealthy man who sins by omission. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Nuri Bilge Ceylan continues to dig with acute intelligence into the dark corners of everyday human behaviour Read more

Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: This patient, beautiful, painful, engrossing film pits husband and wife against each other and their world in a series of extended conversations/confrontations. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The easy gag about the 196-minute "Winter Sleep" is that it's so good it makes 3  1/2 hours feel like two, but that's no joke. Read more