Here's hoping Allen's static Hennessey is due to an extreme acting choice and not plastic surgery. It would be tragic to lose a natural smile to star in garbage like Death Race.

The whole thrust of the movie is to warn black women against emasculating their men.

This is a movie that earns its suspense and validates its emotions, especially its examination of the bond between mother and child.

It's possible that a smart, insightful, sharp-edged comedy could have been written around these characters, but Trust The Man isn't it.

Angelina Jolie focuses her wild energy into outlandish heroics, and emerges with more attractiveness and credibility than all three of those silly Charlie's Angels combined.

A slick sci-fi thriller that comes complete with enough twists to keep audiences satisfied and enough moral quandaries to keep the thinkers happy.

Fans of horror-comedy probably will enjoy this movie, even though chuckles outnumber scares.

Unable to embrace the world he's seeking to depict, Cherot is left with a lifeless shell, a movie so preoccupied with being noble that it forgets to be interesting. The problem with G is not that it's unbelievable, it's just boring.

Regrettably, Bones is what passes for horror these days: Throw a lot of graphic, gore-filled, darkly lit stuff on the screen, and see what sticks. Discerning moviegoers should pass on the opportunity.

The movie gives us a time machine that resembles a twin-engined Mixmaster and a script that was tossed together inside one.

The movie, brief though it is, feels as padded as a travelogue.

This is harmless fun for the holiday season, but Tim Allen doesn't give movie the punch it needs.

How did an embarrassment of comic-book riches become simply an embarrassment as a movie?

What it is not is funny.

As a visual adventure, "The Lawnmower Man" is great fun.

The result may not make for a great adventure, but it's sure a fun ride.

Despite all its talk of genetic engineering and its deliberately stupid characters, the unintended message of Jurassic Park III is that when it comes to art and entertainment, you can't beat human DNA.

The special effects turn out to be not very special and not very effective, and the movie never achieves the lunatic grandeur of the truly demented. Stargate is strictly for the peanut gallery.

Must be among the most blatantly manipulative movies ever made. It's cold, calculated and treats its audience like its robotic central character.

Great casting ideas, like Glenn Close and Christopher Walken as "the King and Queen of Stepford," don't pay off, because the filmmakers' increasingly desperate twists alter the basis of the characters.

The movie has its moments, and some are undeniably affecting. But even those seem artificial, relying far too much on our familiarity with and fondness for the film's stars.

Is there anything more pathetic than a movie that will do anything for a laugh or a tear that doesn't get any laughs or tears?

A hollow, relentless mess.

Best advice: Just sit back and watch Freeman anyway. The man's a cinematic treasure.

Takes a great idea -- what if the inhabitants of a museum came to life at night? -- and milks it for every drop of fun it's worth.

It's a gore sundae with an S&M cherry on top.

Next may be the silliest movie of 2007.

The movie is a model of multinational incompetence.