Kelly Borgeson

So tasteless, so fiendishly puerile that it’s hilarious.

Vince Vaughn is terrific as the baddie.

It puts almost everything it has into its explosive set pieces, but manages to instill the audience with just enough emotional involvement. If, Ah-nold decides to come bach again, this installment should ensure he has an audience.

Hood's film, with its bold, beautiful cinematography and hard-thumping kwaito music, brings us into a different world, and then helps us to understand it.

Winds up being rather fun. It's not great, but it's certainly not the worst monster movie that I've sat through -- that might be 2003's "Darkness Falls."

The film is well-paced and surprisingly suspenseful.

An unexpectedly exuberant, only mildly subversive celebration of music, learning, and going all out for what you love.

Surely it’s a credit to this luminous cast that the characters can behave in such despicable ways yet still command one’s sympathy.

Touching.

The Descent is bloody, disturbing, and genuinely frightening--you'll be very happy to leave that dark theater.

Joyeux Noel is no gritty war film; this is more of a Christmas miracle movie, full of melodrama. Carion juggles a large, multicultural cast, and few of the characters stand out; most are there to represent the types who pop up in your standard war-movie battalions.

Camp may not be great cinema, but it's passionate and original enough to be special.