Name : Michael Nordine / Alias : L.A. Weekly
None of this goes down with any real verve, though Kamiyama's wrinkled face is a small marvel of expressivity.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
Directing with an old-fashioned tenderness toward his unassuming star, Ken Ochiai conjures a swan song to a waning art form and those who practice it.

Name : Martin Tsai / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A cri de coeur on the samurai flicks of a bygone era, "Uzumasa Limelight" unfolds understatedly and movingly like something from Clint Eastwood at the top of his game.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Losing your mind is a terrible thing to watch, but the splendid acting in "Still Alice" makes it worth the pain.

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
"Still Alice" is hampered by both an unimaginative script and ordinary direction, but it's a serious Oscar contender. Why? Because Julianne Moore is in the lead.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Julianne Moore guides us through the tragic arc of how it must feel to disappear before one's own eyes, accomplishing one of her most powerful performances by underplaying the scenario .

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out New York
The rare film possessed with the courage required to shine a light into that abyss knowing full well that down is the only way out.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
With a combination of power and grace, Julianne Moore elevates "Still Alice" above its made-for-cable-television trappings, and delivers one of the more memorable performances of her career.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
Still Alice is a movie that addresses a nightmarish circumstance with calm, compassionate sensitivity.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
It's a way better movie than it ought to be, but not good enough to escape its pulpy, mendacious roots.

Name : Dana Stevens / Alias : Slate
Glatzer and Westmoreland don't need to stack the emotional deck on Alice's behalf . They just leave the camera on Moore's beautiful but increasingly faraway face, and our tears come on their own.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
Simultaneously rawly realistic and airbrushed.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Moore's portrayal of 50-year-old Alice Howland, adapted from Lisa Genova's 2007 novel, is one of the best of her career.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Still Alice is rarely anything short of compelling, in part because its sense of progression and scale offers such a distinctively unsentimental take on the terminal-countdown tearjerker.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
If only the movie were as good as [Moore] and Stewart are.

Name : Deborah Young / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The toll the disease takes on the life of a brilliant linguistics professor is superbly detailed by Julianne Moore in a career-high performance, driving straight to the terror of the disease and its power to wipe out personal certainties and identity.

Name : David Thomson / Alias : The New Republic
Julianne Moore is extraordinary at revealing the gradual loss of memory and confidence, and at showing the hulk of physical persistence that remains after intellect and reference have gone.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
Moore has been a fine actress for a long time and "Still Alice" gives her a remarkable role, and the space to truly live it.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
Thanks to this brave and gutsy actress' overwhelming candor and sincerity, you go away feeling educated, enlightened and more compassionate than you can possibly imagine.