Like Gregory's Girl, it demonstrates Mr. Forsyth's uncanny ability for making an audience sense that something magical is going on, even if that something isn't easily explained. In Variety magazine, film critic Todd McCarthy wrote, ``After making the grade internationally with the sleeper hit, Gregory's Girl, Scottish writer-director Bill Forsyth has broken the sophomore sesh jinx the only way _he_could, by making an even better film ... <sep>, Pronoun: he <sep>, A: Todd McCarthy <sep>, B: Bill Forsyth