Walter Addiego

The movie saves most of its modest number of jolts for its last quarter or so, which makes them all the more intense. They stick in your craw - and be warned, they're not for the squeamish.

Beguiling.

It's an assaultive work about an assaultive fellow.

What's on the screen may not be a letter-perfect Mansfield Park, but something true to its spirit.

While amusing and sometimes touching, Pleasantville is far from challenging.

A moving but flawed premiere feature.

It’s best to accept Don’t Breathe as simply a piece of lowdown fun — connoisseurs of creepy and sometimes brutal chills will have a good time.

It's dark fun, in the spirit of "Gremlins."

Though short on subtlety, A Walk on the Moon does offer the consolation of some decent performances.

A new documentary, The Great Buster: A Celebration, shows us why he inspires rhapsodies from critics and film historians, and would be a fine introduction for those who don’t know his work.

Director Abdullah Oguz gives us lots of nice scenery, but the simplistic story and characters strain credibility. What's more, the climactic plot turn is as hokey as it gets.

The film urges decentralization and bottom-up decision making as tools in remedying problems of global warming, food production and the like. The tone is more upbeat than you might expect, and there’s a certain glossiness to the movie that’s a refreshing change from some of its more dour documentary siblings.

Gripping.

The stuntwomen are also subject to the unbreakable law of Hollywood, that the advantage is always to the young and beautiful.

You need not be a believer to appreciate its humor and humanity.

It's the story of a young married couple undone by a family tragedy, but the film loses its way, at one point turning into a political harangue.

Neatly, and often humorously, summarizes a very unhealthy situation.

There's a sense of genuineness throughout Girlfight.

It’s a complicated tale, and at 92 minutes, the film is a very brief summary.

This comic film from Belgium, in which God is shown as a cantankerous slob, is more mischievous than malevolent, likely to offend only the humor-impaired.

Joner is a capable actor, but he’s required here to remain for such a long time in a one-note condition of mental fragility that our sympathy for the character starts to give way to exasperation.

In the end, there’s some naughty, voyeuristic fun to be had from Studio 54, but the bottom-line story of the club — assuming that is of value — is still to be told.

Will wring some laughs out of anyone but the most humor-impaired.

Aimed directly at your inner 8-year-old, and it strikes home.

Does about as good a job as any film could be expected to.

The New Zealand feature Boy almost pulls off the trick of merging cartoonish humor and '80s pop culture with a story glancing at deeper family issues. The film has an appealing 11-year-old hero, but in the end feels half baked.

It doesn’t really add up, either as a psychological portrait or moral commentary.

If you stare at it too hard, In Another Country, an exercise in drollery from South Korea's Hong Sang-soo, simply evaporates. But if you take the film as the bauble it is, you'll be entertained by its lighthearted wit, social observations and resolute sidestepping of profundity.