Full of wit, charm and wonder. It's so hilarious, you might blow a gasket.

Original, unfailingly entertaining marital-breakup movie.

And the movie, likable for short stretches, ends up seeming worn and frayed, like Christmas decorations left hanging until spring.

Yes, the movie asks hard questions, but it would be better - or at least more honest - if it weren't so insistent that everyone arrive at the same answer.

The people are just a little too calculatedly quirky in Off the Map, an otherwise engaging comedy.

Be Cool proves that when "cool" evaporates all it leaves are embarrassing little puddles.

Doesn't really go anywhere or amount to anything - a fatal flaw in a time-travel movie designed not only to keep you guessing, but to build genuine suspense as well.

For anyone who has ever had to balance what the heart yearns for against what the head insists must be, this film should hit home.

Although the acclaimed documentary Gunner Palace contains some electrifying vignettes of the Iraq war, its jaggedly elliptical and hopped-up style lands it in a limbo between ragged and slick.

Unfortunately for Fox, the softer his movie gets, the more Ashkenazi and Berger grow to resemble Ben Stiller and Ashton Kutcher in some unreleased, homo-erotic comic romance.

This is a movie that falls short only because it insists on grabbing for so much.

It all comes off as a case of filmmakers wanting to have their communion wafer and eat it, too.

Doing a sequel to "The Mask" without Jim Carrey sounds like a really bad idea. As Son of the Mask proves, it is.

That's the problem of Downfall in a nutshell: It provokes insufficient emotional and intellectual responses to a grotesque and atrocious dictatorship. Instead of the banality of evil, it gives us the banality of banality.

What keeps the picture alive is Ghobadi's surprising, often explosive grasp of visual farce.

An opportunity to enjoy the pure adrenaline rush that has always been the hallmark of martial-arts cinema.

The comedy of manners becomes strictly a comedy of bad manners.

Yet [Smith] can't keep the movie from stopping cold with another hour left to go.

When Inside Deep Throat is over, it's tough to say which tragic moment lingers longer.

Beguiling, moving and just plain fun documentary.

Still, it's hard not to long for the Pooh stories of old, those endearingly anarchic little tales that captured the wonder of a child's world without ever once condescending to it.

There's nothing about The Wedding Date that isn't forced or labored; there's only a stubborn determination to embrace every cliche and make sure the stars photograph well.

Kore-eda expresses the terror of the kids' predicament with a touch that's equally tender and dispassionate.

Alone in the Dark will be the worst movie of 2005. The idea that anything could be worse is the only genuine scare the movie has to offer.

Will have most audiences asking, "Can we leave now?"

The love that heals and the love that kills are one and the same in the exhilarating Head-On, Fatih Akin's overgrown dead-end-kid romance for live-wire adults.

Whatever spark the newer Precinct 13 has comes from its supporting players.

Electric as Elektra, Jennifer Garner does a high-powered, blade-thrusting star turn as Marvel Comics' ninja-inspired superheroine, bringing such unbridled energy and sexuality to her performance, one barely notices the movie itself.