Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback ultimately transcends its representational imperfections with pure heart.

Brokeback’s high emotion occasionally borders on the melodrama of classic Hollywood. There is plenty of aching nuance, but the film is, for the most part, generous and entirely legible in its pathology.

Ledger and Gyllenhaal deserve nothing but praise for their brave, sensitive portrayals of troubled souls...

What is remarkable about the film is how it doesn't politicise the homosexuality theme, transcends it to become the story of two people in doomed love. The two lead characters are wonderfully delineated.

Brokeback Mountain is in no rush. Its emotional impact builds slowly, its rhythms in tune with the countryside--the rugged grandeur of the mountains; the arid, bleak vistas of backwater Western towns.

Arguably Ang Lee's best film, this swooning, achingly sad near-masterpiece offers a universal love story that lingers long in the mind.

For all the film's moments of authentically aching passion, the greatest ache is the one that sits in the pit of your stomach as you realize that it's all gone.

two decades later, it’s still a beautiful, deeply felt and emotionally resonant piece of cinema, and no matter how good you thought it was the first time, it’s even better than you remember it.

The work of a great maestro, Brokeback tugs at every heartstring, and leaves you awash in appreciation for its song.

Simply put, you can't quit it.