Ruthe Stein

Two guys panting over the same babe leads to tedium, despite a near-record number of overheated sex scenes.

A Christian-themed film about redemption with almost no redeeming qualities as entertainment.

The prologue sets a simpleton tone that, distressingly, continues throughout.

With words streaming out of their mouths instead of into bubbles, Ethan and his gang of past, present and future lovers sound laughingly unbelievable. They're on the road to inanity.

Noirish thrillers live or die by their plot twists and dialogue -- talk literally being cheap compared to action shots. Unfortunately, the script by first-time filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson fails on both counts.

Chock-full of holes.

For all the precision shooting, Autumn is a colossal misfire, a tedious film noir wannabe. It doesn't even qualify as film gris.

This is a movie of excesses that doesn't know when to settle down. It aims to be a slapstick comedy, a romantic comedy and a plain old romance but falls short of each goal.

It would require a near-lethal injection of nitrous oxide to induce laughter.

A disappointing sequel to the far funnier "Diary of a Mad Black Woman."

The dreary teen drama Step Up appears to be cobbled together from bits and pieces of successful movies.

Spending an hour and a half inside a uterus might be more entertaining than this tiresome sequel.

From watching this meandering, stilted movie, anyone unfamiliar with Charles Dickens' novel would be not only disinclined to pick it up but also clueless as to why it's considered great.

A bigger mess than the gas crisis.

Filth & Wisdom is dead in the water, an excruciating bore even at a compact 84 minutes.

The best that can be said of this charmless animated picture is that whether or not it ends happily -- an outcome you're unlikely to give a hoot about -- it does, happily, end.

A comedy so unfunny, it's tragic.

An annoying little film that attempts to be lascivious but is merely ludicrous.

So disturbing it makes you uncomfortable watching it.

Annoying, soporific and singularly humorless.

Save the price of admission to this dull retread and go have your hair done.

This so-called comedy is so not funny, it makes "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" look like Chaplin.

Hogwash and not even funny hogwash.

Exactly what the title implies: mindless.

Annoyingly simplistic.

The young people in Nowhere spend a lot of time worrying about the world coming to an end. Watching these sour characters abuse themselves and one another, the more immediate concern becomes: When is this movie going to end?