It's not quite the Hospital-in-a-snowglobe at the end of St. Elsewhere, but the New York flash-forward was mesmerisingly bad, from Moore's overdone cameo (which even he now agrees was a mistake) to the finger-pointing dialogue to the clumsy montage showing us that yes, technology is evil and yes, Japanese robots will soon be coming to kill us. ❋ Unknown (2009)
• Homophone corner at The Taming of the Shrew, Clwyd Theatr Cymru: "It's also mesmerisingly beautiful, with everything in a rich, timeless Mediterranean palate" Reviews, 23 May, page 32. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Hugo Vickers wonders halfway through this mesmerisingly awful book about the last years of Wallis Simpson pictured, adding "Perhaps it never does." ❋ Unknown (2011)
The answer, mesmerisingly enough, seems to be "not quite". ❋ Unknown (2011)
Set during the time of Brandenburg's war with the Swedes, the play starts mesmerisingly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
NightJack is mesmerisingly written, with not a word out of place. ❋ Alix Mortimer (2009)
This is an unremittingly depressing film, but so mesmerisingly well told that you won't be able to look away for a second. ❋ Greg Tannahill (2008)
The main reasons to watch are Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi and Omar Epps slink their way through the proceedings, their mesmerisingly understated performances recalling early Clint Eastwood, that kind of slow burn charisma. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Strauss wheels in such celebrities as Tom Cruise and Courtney Love, and this unblushing peek into a secret world where sex and seduction are treated with cool scientific detachment is mesmerisingly readable.
As a consequence, you are often lonely, feel perpetually on the edge of a friendship group that shifts like quicksand so you take refuge in a fantasy world peopled by characters you have invented who find you mesmerisingly beautiful and fascinating. ❋ Telegraph Staff (2011)
But occasionally it is mindlessly un-poetic and banal, as in the substitution of "Acclaim Yahweh" for the mesmerisingly beautiful and timelessly familiar "make a joyful noise unto the Lord". ❋ Peter Mullen (2011)
Lars von Trier's audaciously conceived, mesmerisingly dramatised and wonderfully acted portrait of the end of the world. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He slowed down Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho so it evolved mesmerisingly over 24 hours, each frame suspended in time. ❋ Unknown (2011)
This last passage is one of several mesmerisingly colourful moments in Lobe of the Lung 2009 - green strawberries bob in pink water, tulips filmed in microscopic close-up shine against a vivid blue sky, a wild boar munches on apples it finds in an orchard. ❋ Ben Luke (2011)
