Wesley Morris

The immediacy and caprice of violence in The Interrupters are just as strong as in nearly every documentary I've seen about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A collection of beautifully acted encounters, conversations, symbols, and vignettes woven into an evocative and unforgettably surreal garment.

Set in a vivid two-dimensional African village, the animated fable is jerky, odd but redolent somehow of Saturday morning and the night's sleep before.

For some, Atlas Shrugged Part II is a ridiculous movie. For others, it's scripture.

The opportunity to see what Lollobrigida could do with a crooked smile or a roll of her eyes -- let alone a simple street dress -- is well worth the price of entry.

I Stand Alone has the ghastly stink of a rotting corpse. You can smell the cess as clearly as you can see the blood vessels striking like lightning around the pupils of its malefactor's eyes.

A particularly egregious array of Kodak moments.

Short without feeling scant. That's how big its sense of grief is.

Just fascinating in an empty, trendy sort of way

It's as much a portrait of a kind of artist as it is a document of a city's evolving sense of style.

Merry, filthy, unstoppably hormonal, Serbis feels very much like the sort of movie that happens when no one is minding the store.

It’s both ridiculous and ridiculously romantic, which is an apt description of a work shaped like a heart and structured like a pretzel.

The movie is warm, observant, mildly philosophical and deeply curious about the daily and inner lives of both the people and their four-legged assistants.

Harmless enough, but "indie comedy" sounds like something better seen at Urban Outfitters than at a movie theater.

In Every Little Step, the performers bleed, sweat, cry theater - without having to tell us.

On the one hand, welcome to the music business. On the other, if A Tribe Called Quest can't stay together who can? It's a worry that eventually gets at the eccentricity of both the music and the movie.

Washington hasn't been this relaxed in years. When he feels like it he can be the most charismatic star in the movies.

The movie is like a daydream, and it's most infectious when the characters are in motion or misbehaving, which is often.

A dashing fusion of the literary and the cinematic.

It's hard to dislike a film that wants to say that the bereft have to move on with their lives, that death is part of living, and that poverty is a state of mind. But it's not impossible.

Every moment... is a cleverly constructed live-action joke on aloofness: The world is ending, and these people are too self-centered to notice.

While the words belong to the storyteller, the story in And Everything Is Going Fine appears to be telling itself.

It looks great and the dancing is the kind of stuff that would upstage the average pop star.

In its seriousness, Syriana has an absorbing, ominous roundness that plays even better with a second viewing.

Swift, brutal, lurid, often overheated, and occasionally comical, but it’s also a serious, well acted, and unromantic exploration of the rise and demise of a terrorist gang whose radicalism ultimately reached beyond the young men and women who set it in motion.

A delightful road movie.

It's taken Dreamgirls 25 years and several false starts to get to the screen, so it's a shame to see what a rush job it feels like.

Flight is a so-so movie with Denzel Washington as a commercial-airline pilot who crash-lands a plane while drunk, high, hung over, and horny. It doesn't do much that you couldn't anticipate just by seeing the trailer - the trailer is more exciting than the movie itself.