Peter Hartlaub

It's a hilarious comedy made even more successful because so much of the satire seems fresh.

Occasionally thoughtful and very entertaining.

Feels a bit too much like six hours of movie packed into 113 minutes - imagine if New Line had made Peter Jackson cram the entirety of "Lord of the Rings" into one film.

It's a movie that scrounges so desperately for laughs, it features both a flatulent moose and a flatulent train.

Has maybe a half-dozen moderately frightening scenes.

The multiple-story-line family drama is too cliche-ridden to be considered a great movie. But it's still a very good one, filled with excellent performances, entertaining writing and a final few scenes that are quite moving - even if you can see most of them coming at the end of the first act.

It's hard to deny that the first two-thirds of G.I. Joe is an enjoyable film, especially when graded on the curve of lowered expectations. Compared to other big-budget movies out this summer, it's pretty mediocre.

The movie appears to be a contrived, poorly produced attempt to sell more of the author's books.

The entertaining new film from Sony Pictures Animation is a nice surprise, and the rare mainstream American kid film.

The movie is not as good as his recent low-budget effort, "Diary of the Dead," but there are enough moments of satire and coolness - two Romero hallmarks - to merit recommendation.

Unpolished but entertaining.

Humorless, confusing and not very fun to watch.

Looks fantastic, but the film suffers from the TV-to-feature transition.

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.

In style and tone, Igor seems more like a short from the adult-oriented "Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation."

Fans of this film will some day wear out their DVDs and Blu-rays playing that fantastic battle scene again and again.

Who wants to spend a minute on the Strip with the chance that there might be people as annoying as the characters played by Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher walking around?

As challenging as it must have been to pilot Joss Whedon's space opera from the TV junk pile to the big screen, the finished product is a triumph.

At times, "European Gigolo" feels more like an international incident than a movie.

The movie is overly long and much too intense for small children, yet it's filled with dialogue and plot turns that are too juvenile to thrill adult audiences.

The result is an excellent film - entertaining and informative and sometimes stunning in its display of the personal demons shared by these two geniuses.

The second half of the film is much funnier and warmer than the first, but the movie is still difficult to recommend.

Retro escapist fun.

A workmanlike effort -- a precision piece of filmmaking that provides education for children and a refresher course that adults can benefit from as well.

A funny comedy, and sometimes an even better drama.

The reboot of the "Friday the 13th" series is a pretty big mess - not particularly scary or interesting or even gory by 21st century movie standards.

If you see only one bad movie this year, definitely make it Knowing. The first major disappointment from director Alex Proyas is a disaster movie, a horror picture, a "Da Vinci Code"-style thriller and an end-of-days religious film all at once.

Better than a lot of teen comedies.