Kim Morgan

A profoundly anxious picture that from its first frame holds you, clenched, never able to let go, even after its unresolved coda.

This film might've worked better as a comedy.

Too sugary to be funny or offensive or even offensively funny, though any kind of funny would be welcome here.

Understated fun, but not much more.

Funny, irreverent and moving, the unconventional Shrek may mock fairy tales, but in the process, creates its own.

Filled with wonderful performances, especially by Hedaya and Walsh, Blood Simple remains a tight, beautifully ugly, neo-noir classic.

This film disappointingly feels like a sometimes brilliantly acted, often gorgeously filmed re-enactment of the television show "Unsolved Mysteries."

Its cool, glib observations, delivered by good-looking creative people who live like the cast of "Friends" gone cynical, becomes forced and often stupid. The film goes off the track enough to make for an interesting train wreck.

Two-thirds of the way through, it falls apart into TV-movie-of-the-week land, even with the rhapsodic Nastassja Kinski in the lead.

Limps shallowly along.

Quiet, sexual, disturbing, often beautifully melancholic, Rain, as seen through the eyes of a precocious girl, recalls a parental split-up with sobering accuracy. It reminds us why so many teen-agers go through a sullen phase -- and sometimes never shake it off.

With little cohesion and no respect for the editing process, Old School often feels like someone threw film clips on the floor and strung them together willy-nilly.

A movie that drags.

So what will happen? Sadly, some overacting and a bad "And Justice For All"-style speech at the end.

Though exploring, among other things, fallibility, homosexuality, injustice and loss, the picture seems afraid to really make any kind of strong statement, whether political or psychological.

Balancing homage with creativity, the picture is tight, stylishly filmed, clever and, importantly, scary.

A film with almost zero redeeming value.

Never maintains the spark necessary to sustain a feature film.

An erotic mystery of sorts, the film works because it's laconic rather than talky and its actors are all up for the material.

Just pass on K-PAX.

Stays engaging, chiefly, through the textured, ambiguous performances of Spacey, Moore and Dench.

Though the acting in "Sidewalks" is uniformly fine, particularly among the female cast, it's hard to glimpse any meaningful vision, sly insights or cinematic flair.

Waddington's wonderfully textured film is an unforced work of naturalism.

A blending of international film sensibilities -- France meets Hollywood meets Hong Kong -- with a very cool anti-hero protagonist.

An affable, entertaining and poignant experience of the sort not normally afforded by space movies.

An odd, jumbled, beautifully wrought, often confusing work, this animated feature manages to be a compelling, exhilarating experience.

The film is tangled but not chaotic, thoughtful but not terribly deep. Still, it's intimate, entertaining, and most impressive, genuine.

Another Bond film that turns out to be an unspectacular spectacle, at times winking and fun but too often plodding and hackneyed. That said, as usual Brosnan is terrific, walking through dunderhead moments and a tedious plot with grace.