Chris Kaltenbach

Doesn't really go anywhere or amount to anything - a fatal flaw in a time-travel movie designed not only to keep you guessing, but to build genuine suspense as well.

The movie lives and dies on the energy of stepping.

Especially discomfiting is the stream of kids in peril.

Like "Tango," Wang's film also seeks to uncover whether sex without emotion is really possible, or worth the effort.

Connie and Carla is a good-hearted comedy that missteps by trying to become a moralistic one.

It doesn't take a genius IQ to figure out the movie's final twist far in advance, leaving the attentive viewer to wonder only about how Shyamalan will pull it off and to hope the movie doesn't turn silly.

The mystery is, how the filmmakers still managed to come up with a movie that will satisfy almost no one.

Besides offering the giddy pleasure of seeing Mia Farrow play a demonic nanny, there's not much to the film that a repeat viewing of its earlier incarnation couldn't provide.

The Mexican is its own worst enemy, consistently undermining its best efforts. The result is an over-long series of quirks, a film that's far less than the sum of its often amusing and ingenious parts.

The biggest problem with Jersey Girl may not be exactly its fault; what is up there on the screen is cute and funny and heartfelt, even if it is unflinchingly formulaic.

With Anything Else, Woody Allen proves himself an old dog capable of thinking up some new tricks.

Barrymore gives a performance that's nuanced, assured and captivating.

Paycheck is one of those movies in which all the ingenuity went into the original idea and none into its execution.

Signs of fatigue are all over the film itself.

There's much more than a little Stifler here. Still, there's a recklessness to the character, as well as Scott's performance, that almost engenders respect; he's so determinedly unregenerate, so outrageously lewd, so unrelentingly grating, one almost looks forward to seeing just how far he'll go.

It may not advance the art form, but it's a movie with pleasures for the whole family, and nowadays that's saying something.

This is a movie that earns its suspense and validates its emotions, especially its examination of the bond between mother and child.

It's possible that a smart, insightful, sharp-edged comedy could have been written around these characters, but Trust The Man isn't it.

A slick sci-fi thriller that comes complete with enough twists to keep audiences satisfied and enough moral quandaries to keep the thinkers happy.