The film's greatest strength undeniably lies in Gosling's revelatory portrayal of Danny.

About a Boy knows exactly what it wants to do: It wants to make you smile, and grin, and then laugh with recognition, and it manages all three, again and again.

Attack of the Clones' final 35 minutes very nearly makes up for the preceding 105, featuring as it does the jaw-dropping spectacle of the entire Jedi Council battling it out with not only clones, but also lumbering monsters, space ships of all sorts, and each other.

A bold (and lovely) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams.

Lyne's excesses are usually the kind of thing I love to hate, but Unfaithful found me pretty much following along in step with his rhythms and dramatic choices.

In an inspired bit of casting, Lyle Lovett plays the dad of the goofy-looking Diz/Gil. That these two could be related might be the only believable touch in this whole misfired thing.

A movie that amply delivers on the epic promise of its title, entertaining, enlightening, and emboldening viewers with its deceptively simple premise and execution.

Smith's film is a celebration of quirkiness, eccentricity, and certain individuals' tendency to let it all hang out, and damn the consequences.

It's worth seeing the action scenes on the big screen, and to get in the mood for the World Cup opener later this month.

That's the ultimate cheat in this pleasant, but trifling affair: Allen has cheated himself out of an actress (Leoni) that could have been Diane Keaton's heir.

With centrifugal force on his side, Spider-Man dips, weaves, and whooshes past, up, and around the camera -- it's a rush, and it plasters a grin on your face even after you've left the theatre.

It's too bad Shafer spent his budget making a fiction feature instead of just shooting a documentary about the scene. So much of the film is melodramatic kitsch, but there's still a movie in here.

The whole thing still reeks of voyeurism -- and not the fly-on-the-wall voyeurism of a vérité doc, but rather the dirty-old-man-in-the-peep-show-booth kind. Might as well just wait for it to hit late-night cable.

That they were just hormonally blitzkrieged kids at the time, unaware of their role in history, only makes Peralta's superior doc that much more winning.

Life at least deserves a nod for supplying the mostly dramatic actress with her first starring comedic role.

It had a little originality, unlike the other sequels, but not much.

For all its faults, is a solid piece of dirty work.

Not only the best date movie of the year, it's also a -- dare I say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally American, I might add -- slice of comedic bliss.

Never inspires more than an interested detachment.

Mutant Aliens would have been brilliant as a short; there's just not enough story for a full-length feature, so the film seems strung together.

In context, it's utterly, dismayingly typical.

It's done with such a wonderfully dry style and wit that you don't mind having to stop to catch up now and again.

For all the swords 'n' sandals hoodoo that makes up the wilting backbone of Jonathan Hale's script, the Rock is, nevertheless, fun to keep an eye on.

All icing, with a few crumbs devoted to the notion that it is futile to resist the heart's desires.

As a period mystery, however, it's as muddy and swirling as the actual record of that fateful, deadly weekend cruise.

Pure unadulterated animal fun.

Chills to the bone -- and beyond, but for pure excitement it's best not to look far beneath the surface.

Rarely have I seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart.