There's an undeniable energy, originality and -- most hearteningly -- optimism here that makes Beefcake well worth your time, shortcomings and all.

Full of nuanced performances (Streep in particular) and wonderfully enveloping music.

A sumptuous ride with breathtaking scenes and a soaring musical score.

A film for the young at heart and those who still appreciate honor, valor, love, and the earth.

A wildly inventive, unrelenting thrill that amazes us with its visual and intellectual treats and dazzles us with its ongoing ingenuity.

It's all a bit of overkill.

Deeply moral, thoughtful, and amiably humorous.

For each prejudice the film tries to shatter, it furthers a different stereotype.

It's relentlessly bad in a way that just makes those theatre seats plain uncomfortable.

A bleak, depressing film.

There's much to enjoy here as long as your expectations aren't too high.

So full of good stuff that it's impossible not to fall in love with it.

This is Martin Scorsese, and in the end, it's his town, and his show.

A wistful, humorous, but ultimately fluffy look at those halcyon days, before punk, junk, and the onslaught of the Eighties.

A relentlessly good-humored, life-affirming film.

Julien may be a donkey-boy but it's Harmony Korine, this film's director, who is a horse's ass.

Merry witticisms collide with empty clichés, leaving these characters with little trace of realism.

Failings do not get in the way of The Source providing a basic primer on the genesis and lasting influence of these cultural icons of the 20th century.

Proof positive that heavy underground buzz doesn't necessarily imply merit or even intrinsic interest.

A powerful little gem: a little bit of "The Outsiders" (the film's tone is remarkably similar to Coppola's film, minus the airy redemption and golden sunrises), a lot of "The 400 Blows," and a slice of "Radio Flyer" all wrapped up in a dirty black bow.

Its simplicity belies an emotional complexity that will linger in your mind like a gentle dream.

The gentle lift you feel in watching Defying Gravity is propelled by the earnestness of its emotions.

Fight Club's dirty little secret is it's one of the best comedies of the decade.

A moribund Harrison Ford vehicle, stodgily dull, and seemingly endless in its monotony.

Belongs in the histrionic comedy genre, packed as it is with just plain silly situations that fail to elicit grins, much less guffaws.

The work of a fine craftsman and artist.

Even at 82 minutes in length, Superstar feels uncomfortably stretched.

An amazing work, a film that seems to gurgle up from the American heartland, resonant and fully formed, ripe with possibilities.