Sean Means

Shining above it all, like a kewpie-doll saint, is Drew Barrymore -- whose sweet innocence and sexy romanticism have survived movies as bad as this before

As the movie plods on, the jokes start to fall flat...Worst of all is a centerpiece scene, when Ben has to pretend to be a mafioso (but sounds more like a cross between Martin and Lewis), when Crystal is so unfunny that you almost feel sorry for him.

Isn't bad as summer action fare goes -- big and loud, impressively staged by Hong Kong action auteur John Woo, a combination of special effects and eye-popping stunt maneuvers threaded by a plotline that doesn't make sense in the slightest.

I just really, really, really, don't like this movie, and I don't care who knows it.

It's a high-wire act without a net, and Benigni pulls it off with astounding grace and sensitivity.

Isn't quite enough to save the Bond franchise -- but it does prove that 007 is Y2K-compliant.

A cool movie and a must-see for anyone who wants to see the next stage in computer-generated animation. But it could have been so much more.

Smith puts the soul in the machine of Series 7, producing an emotional power too real for reality-TV to handle.

All the Pretty Horses may end up being a good movie to watch on DVD, when all the footage is restored and we can see the subtle shadings Thornton jettisoned.

But as objectionable as its subject matter is, the most objectionable thing is that it's not funny.

While The Messenger feeds our appetite for visual panache, it starves the soul.

Alas, when Rounders lays out its cards, the results aren't as much as you'd been led to believe. But the movie's style and authenticity run a good bluff.

LL Cool J... is downright scary -- a mix of coiled charm and underlying menace.

This is a band that deserves better.

The surprising part is how, once you get over the crude humor that the teen-movie genre demands, Get Over It is a nice little movie.

A fireworks show with plenty of "oohs" but not a lot of "aah" -- the story is needlessly convoluted in places and storybook-simple in others, and the characters never make the leap from drawn figures to flesh-and-blood people.

Big, bold, brash and occasionally brilliant.

The gravity-defying harness maneuvers popularized in the U.S. with "The Matrix" -- ... look really cool, but seem out of place in a realistic gang-style action movie.

Best of all are the supporting players. Everett (who played the Prince of Wales in "The Madness of King George") is smartly urbane, giving a polished refinement to the stereotypical "gay best buddy'' role.

A too-familiar road.

I see Austin Powers as Myers' desperate cry for help -- a plea to stop him before he does schtick again.

It earns an "Incomplete'' -- because we won't know the results until we see Lucas' next chapter.

Atrocious comedy.

Raucously funny.

Another droning formulaic thriller.

Vertical Limit has its share of intrigue, but there ain't no mountain high enough to make O'Donnell look deep.

Mostly he's (Fraser) trapped in a sequel that's too wrapped up in a desire to top itself.

Fails as a movie, it works OK as a long-form video.