Sean Means

A bad movie about a great man.

What Smith does best in Chasing Amy is write clever, raunchy and emotionally true-to-life dialogue.

Darabont follows King's book fairly closely, allowing the audience to steep itself in the setting and characters slowly, like reading a good novel.

A brilliant and daring film.

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.

Watching Seven is like cracking open a safe, only to find it crawling with eels

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

Lets Jackie Chan have some fun, ride a horse and frolic in the American West. And when Jackie's having fun, at least some of it trickles down to us.

Raucously funny.

So you'll laugh during Big Momma's House -- but the laughs are so negligible you'll probably forget them before you get to the parking lot.

Costner's serious-as-a-heart-attack performance...slowly kills the movie's energy in a gooey morass of forced sincerity.

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

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

Hogan's rough-and-ready charm remains intact, but it's not enough to salvage this instantly forgettable movie.

Works so beautifully because Davis doesn't try to turn Eads and his friends into walking soapboxes for transgendered people.

Has some good throwaway gags -- but far too often, the moviemakers don't throw them away soon enough.

But it's the boy and the dog who make My Dog Skip resonate. The formula may be an old one, but it's still a good one.

Once L.A. Confidential gets rolling, it hits with power, stunning in its sweep and surprising with its plot twists.

Isn't a bad action movie -- it's just an utterly forgettable one.

When your characters are only skin deep, so is your message.

Parts of this three-hour World War II epic are brilliant -- especially the 40-minute sequence in which the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is stunningly re-created.

He's hilarious, but through the jokes, you get the sense Foxx knows he deserves better.

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.

That rare movie, a clever and unabashedly fun adventure that has as many winning moments as it has hen's teeth -- which is quite a lot.

A hilariously entertaining movie.

Kids -- may like this movie. But kids like green ketchup, so what do they know?

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

The single best thing about Stuart Little is Nathan Lane.