Jami Bernard

Gloriously inventive, delightfully nutty comic treasure is unlike anything you've ever seen. It's lunatic.

Michael Jackson is an alien? Tell me something I don't know.

No other mainstream movie has so openly tackled the subject of female sexual experience.

A comedy that successfully plays with stereotypes, both racial and personal.

The movie is set in a gloriously creepy and crumbling Venice. It's the off-season, and every deserted canal and alleyway reeks of bad vibes. Roeg plays masterfully with this menacing atmosphere, jangling the nerves with quick cuts and quixotic possibilities. [16 Oct 1998, p.72]

High spirits and colorful hissy fits go a long way toward masking the inexperience of this cast of mostly nonprofessionals. It's a charmer.

An impressive portrait of the migraine of teenage girlhood, and also works on the more modest level of teen romance.

Like all blond jokes, Legally Blonde is basically meanspirited, and that's when it's funniest.

A fascinating whirl of politics and palace intrigue.

Spielberg's direction and Melissa Mathison's script never lose sight of the realistic, low center of gravity world of childhood, in which such marvelous adventures happen every day that an alien knocking around the garage is not really such an unusual occurrence. [2002 re-release]

The result is a bit of a mess: sometimes delightful, sometimes tedious, always creative.

The results are impressive. Maybe, as the U.S. falls abysmally behind other nations in the sciences, it will get kids interested in that field again.

Some of the simplest shots give you the full picture of the price these guys paid for their dreams.

The movie's pleasures are spare, and will appeal mostly to die-hard Rivette fans and viewers with slow pulses.

Has a great deal of empathy for that excruciating limbo that is female adolescence.

A charmer with an attractive cast and an excellent soundtrack.

A caustic, funny, low-budget treat, shot on digital video.

The vitality of the hip-hop scene serves as both backdrop and metaphor in a romantic comedy as sweet as its title.

This languorous art movie is somewhat like "Memento," with its narrative fragments and memory mixups. It never explains itself, which means that the audience, like the protagonists, must take a leap of faith.

Yet another film from Iran that has the leisurely pace, sly humor and incontrovertible wisdom of a Sufi parable.

The movie pulls off the trick of blurring the distinctions between romantic and platonic attractions across the generations.

With one exception (hint: Faye Dunaway), the actors seem remarkably at home in their milieu.

Writer-director Danis Tanovic, a Bosnian who spent years documenting his homeland's turmoil, makes a bold feature-film debut with this funny, sobering message movie.

The movie exaggerates a common dynamic between men and women.

Handsome, passionate and fun. It's everything we go to the movies for.

A welcome departure from typical movies about teens, wherein their problems are external (the prom, status). Mean Creek is an adult movie that just happens to star young actors.

A surprisingly genial and affecting comedy about the trials and tribulations of teenage rebellion during the Reagan '80s.

A delicately upbeat, even humorous celebration of love and sacrifice.