Peter Hartlaub

It's a bright and fun movie, but also repetitive and overloaded with plot. A nice enough diversion, but not a necessary one.

It’s scattered and messy and startling and electric and fun.

While "Saw" and "Saw II" were pretty good splatter films hampered by spectacularly unbelievable endings, Saw III is annoying for almost the duration of the movie.

An occasionally rousing but mostly just adequate sequel to last year's "Planes."

As cluttered as the movie gets before the ending, it's funny throughout, with some 1970s and '80s music thrown in to keep adults happy.

If there was ever a human being who needed a visit from the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, this is the guy.

Retro escapist fun.

Helm gets huge bonus points for noticing everything that's annoying about modern children's films and including none of those things in his movie.

Leap! is the kind of movie where if you see someone holding a stack of dishes, they will certainly break in the name of a lazy comedic moment.

Too lackluster to be praised highly, yet too benign to be excoriated, “Rock Dog” is the perfect family film for a rainy day with no other options. It does not deserve mention in any animation history book; and yet it’s completely satisfactory in the moment.

Mostly it serves as a comprehensive manual of bad places to hide from a masked killer.

A welcome throwback to family-friendly PG moviemaking.

The film tries to split the difference between thoughtful science fiction and action-driven horror, and blows the chance to truly succeed at either. Morgan is an enjoyable enough experience in the moment, but it never quite coalesces.

If you're no longer old enough to carry a Hannah Montana lunch box, this movie will feel like punishment.

If you can lighten up for an hour and a half, the film delivers one good laugh after another.

Best of all, the laughs often arrive in small moments, not in the obvious ones.

It's difficult to ignore the fact that they've created a romantic comedy that has almost no romance and even less comedy.

This film is too scary for very young children, while older fans are likely to focus on the film not faring well in comparison to the elder Miyazaki's recent work.

Enjoy the film for its witty dialogue and fun performances, but know that there isn't a single good scare. An episode of "Murder, She Wrote" has more thrills.

The film is a plodding 2 ½ hours long, with an abundance of livestock gore, endless dental trauma and a violent sex scene.

Filmgoers looking for copious amounts of mindless violence won't be disappointed.

The humor is lowbrow, but the screenwriters and performers have a sense of pride that makes them strive for stupid jokes that haven't been done before.

A decent-looking and harmless computer animated film that is notable mostly because it doesn't appear to contain a single original idea.

It's a kids' movie from a better time, with a few small concessions to modern audiences.

Disappointingly mediocre.

This time, it seems as if there’s a little less magic in the woods.

A well-intentioned horror film that is weighted down by stellar cast members who for the most part act as if they don't want to be there.

A thoroughly enjoyable three-or four-gimmick comedy.