Ray Bennett

Powerfully moving but laced with incisive wit, Don't Tell has terrific performances with a wise tone and polished look.

It satisfies not only in the tradition of yarns boiled hard and wry, but as a savvy comment on fame and ambition.

The film is filled with deeply unpleasant and stupid people whose vapid speech is largely incomprehensible due to thick regional accents.

An earnest tale about a faded rock star who discovers he has a teenaged daughter and takes her on the road, Janie Jones follows a predictable path and despite decent performances it does not catch fire.

It's a delightful piece of filmmaking with a marvelous cast topped by Meryl Streep in one of her smartest and most entertaining performances ever.

Could easily be filled with cliches but in the hands of filmmaker John Gray, it's a sparkling piece of entertainment that deserves a wide audience.

Amiel's greatest achievement is that Creation is a deeply human film with moments of genuine lightness and high spirits to go with all the deep thinking.

Jackman does everything required of him, and his range is quite admirable, while Weisz, who has nothing to prove, does looking gorgeous very nicely.

A paranormal mystery without a spine. It has no suspense because it has no belief in itself.

Shot in high definition and filmed at many historic locations, the film somehow still lacks the splendor of an epic, and its urgency to get on with the next plot point leaves much unexplained while context goes out the window.

A handsome, fast-paced and innocuous adventure that's easy to take but lacks epic scale.

As writer, Allen offers lazy plotting, poor characterization, dull scenes and flat dialogue.

With neither great insight nor any sign of wit, the film is not likely to capture interest outside France.

While Malcolm Venville's Henry's Crime is billed as a comedy it's more funny odd than funny ha-ha.

Despite top-flight acting from Michael Caine and Jude Law, it loses its grip in the third act and let's the air out of what might have been a memorably gripping film.

What it lacks is a villain, and magic without danger is simply a parlor trick, which is what the film becomes.

Politicians, the media, educators, military commanders and a docile public all come under fire in a well-made movie that offers no answers but raises many important questions.

Atom Egoyan has delivered a big, slick and sexy mystery in Where the Truth Lies, turning the Rupert Holmes novel into a sumptuous tale of show business hype and duplicity.

A so-called black comedy that is more sort of dull, spotty and yucky.

A plucky little bird that just won't fly.

Murphy's comic brilliance is at the service of the story and he positively shines with a number of diverse and zany impersonations, most enjoyably a Jesse Jackson takeoff.

Tedious humor and sentimentality bury what could have been a pretty good road picture.

Good-humored, illuminating and without cant, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone's documentary South of the Border is a rebuttal of what he views as the fulminations and lies of right-wing media at home and abroad regarding the socialist democracies of South America.

Brainlessly entertaining action picture.

A ramshackle but likeable story.

The English term "shambolic" best describes a slow-paced, bloated and self-indulgent picture that combines science fiction, sophomoric humor and grisly violence soaked in a music-video sensibility.

A polished, fast-moving, entertaining picture whose mainstream success will depend on audiences' tolerance of its tendency to become an abattoir of extreme carnage.

Lacking coherence and suspense, the picture is likely to attract a cult following while disappointing Coppola's fan base.