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It's a wonderful, sobering, heart-felt drama.

Here's yet another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix.

One of those movies that make us pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary society.

Done in mostly by a weak script that can't support the epic treatment.

Unfortunately, Kapur modernizes A.E.W. Mason's story to suit the sensibilities of a young American, a decision that plucks "The Four Feathers" bare.

Uneven, self-conscious but often hilarious spoof.

Deserving of its critical backlash and more.

Do we really need another film that praises female self-sacrifice?

More mature than Fatal Attraction, more complete than Indecent Proposal and more relevant than 9 ½ Weeks, Unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema.

The wonder of Mostly Martha is the performance of Gedeck, who makes Martha enormously endearing.

A battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee.

Like a Tarantino movie with heart, Alias Betty is richly detailed, deftly executed and utterly absorbing.

It's hard to say who might enjoy this, are there Tolstoy groupies out there?

This movie is to be cherished.

In all fairness, I must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed, fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks.

The screenplay is hugely overwritten, with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children.

Entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics, but through the perverse pleasure of watching Disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel.

Ryan Gosling ... is at 22 a powerful young actor.

I am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray Richard Dawson.

While this movie, by necessity, lacks Fellowship's heart, Two Towers outdoes its spectacle.

For those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s, the film is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed.

An absorbing and unsettling psychological drama.

Like the best of Godard's movies ... it is visually ravishing, penetrating, impenetrable.

Spare but quietly effective retelling.

The story that emerges has elements of romance, tragedy and even silent-movie comedy.

This is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors.

It's a strange film, one that was hard for me to warm up to.

A series of immaculately composed shots of Patch Adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie.

Harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research.

All the Queen's Men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels, it should pay reparations to viewers.

Fessenden's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy.

The exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you'll find in this dreary mess.

A banal, virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy.

A must see for all sides of the political spectrum

The storylines are woven together skilfully, the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking, and the overall experience is awesome.

Skip the film and buy the Philip Glass soundtrack CD.

...unspeakably, unbearably dull, featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted.

Forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention, giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining.

An action/thriller of the finest kind, evoking memories of Day of the Jackal, The French Connection, and Heat.

Beyond the cleverness, the weirdness and the pristine camerawork, One Hour Photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures.

The best part about "Gangs" was Daniel Day-Lewis.

...hypnotically dull.

We can't accuse Kung Pow for misfiring, since it is exactly what it wants to be: an atrociously, mind-numbingly, indescribably bad movie.

But then again, I hate myself most mornings.

Although purportedly a study in modern alienation, it's really little more than a particularly slanted, gay s/m fantasy, enervating and deadeningly drawn-out.

It can be safely recommended as a video/DVD babysitter.

The movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times, give you a few laughs, and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks, even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end.

Part of the film's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz.

A fun family movie that's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh, cry and realize, 'It's never too late to believe in your dreams.'

Unlike most anime, whose most ardent fans outside Japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes, Metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile.

There is something that is so meditative and lyrical about Babak Payami's boldly quirky Iranian drama Secret Ballot...a charming and evoking little ditty that manages to show the gentle and humane side of Middle Eastern world politics

It winds up moving in many directions as it searches (vainly, I think) for something fresh to say.

It's as if De Palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

With or without the sex, a wonderful tale of love and destiny, told well by a master storyteller

Rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a Hubert Selby Jr., but there isn't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative.

But it will just as likely make you weep, and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you feel like a sucker.

The acting is just fine, but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes, especially with the weak payoff.

Romantic comedy and Dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows, but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here.

(A) rather thinly-conceived movie.

Good, solid storytelling.

It's a treat watching Shaw, a British stage icon, melting under the heat of Phocion's attentions.

the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring, new-agey tone creeping into the second half

A smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie.

Um....isn't that the basis for the entire plot?

(Has) an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it's all true.

A deftly entertaining film, smartly played and smartly directed.

Bogdanovich taps deep into the Hearst mystique, entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal.

A terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving.

To Blandly Go Where We Went 8 Movies Ago ...

The film's lack of personality permeates all its aspects -- from the TV movie-esque, affected child acting to the dullest Irish pub scenes ever filmed.

Craig Bartlett and director Tuck Tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters.

Rosenthal (Halloween II) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense.

But it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain.

Famuyiwa's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful, intelligent manner, rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer.

'Matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout...but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with Kafka-inspired philosophy.

(Toback's) fondness for fancy split-screen, stuttering editing and pompous references to Wittgenstein and Kirkegaard ... blends uneasily with the titillating material.

At a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism American moviemaking ever had, Godfrey Reggio's career shines like a lonely beacon.

The type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the (teen comedy) genre a bad name.

Elegant and eloquent (meditation) on death and that most elusive of passions, love.

Weird.

(Clooney's) debut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined, but it has a tremendous, offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the Coen brothers and Steven Soderbergh.

Pair that with really poor comedic writing...and you've got a huge mess.

The audience when I saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times, and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack.

Nicholas Nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting Dickensian decency that it turned me (horrors!)

Romanek's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals.

No worse a film than Breaking Out, and Breaking Out was utterly charming.

Scooby Doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be, and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation.

A dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the Animal Planet documentary series, Crocodile Hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring.

...an airless, prepackaged Julia Roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if Lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit.

Will anyone who isn't a Fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to video?

Your children will be occupied for 72 minutes.

Exciting and well-paced.

Lasker's canny, meditative script distances sex and love, as Byron and Luther ... realize they can't get no satisfaction without the latter.

Like Rudy Yellow Lodge, Eyre needs to take a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider.

The amazing film work is so convincing that by movies' end you'll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others.

Femme Fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience.

Combines sharp comedy, old-fashioned monster movie atmospherics, and genuine heart to create a film that's not merely about kicking undead ***, but also about dealing with regret and, ultimately, finding redemption.

Just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny.

The movie does its best to work us over, with second helpings of love, romance, tragedy, false dawns, real dawns, comic relief, two separate crises during marriage ceremonies, and the lush scenery of the Cotswolds.

Filled with honest performances and exceptional detail, Baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch, a haunting ode to humanity.