This smart and sophisticated romp takes surprising directions as it examines the creative process of writing, the delicate balance of relationships, and the mysteries of men and women.

Red Hook Summer begins as a gentle character comedy and then erupts into a sudden reversal that is possibly the most powerful and disturbing sequence Lee has ever created. It's a film that makes you laugh, weep, rage and gasp, and, love it or hate it, you will definitely talk about it afterward.

A true crime tale with added layers of intrigue and atmosphere.

A fine film in a strong summer, but it lacks the spark that made its immediate predecessor a masterpiece.

The audience for this movie will have to be an adventurous one, and even then a substantial portion will be outraged by what they see.

Greenfield's fly on the wall view of obscene wealth punctured like a toy balloon is as current as a blog or a headline.

The premise is fetching and feels like a mystery, particularly as the film orchestrates its story to make the work of the Alps group seem like a kind of heist.

Quality evidently not being a concern, Ice Age: Continental Drift is nonetheless a slight improvement over its predecessor.

Betrayals will occur and loyalties will be tested, but it's the audience that ends up ripped off.

Part of Me strains so hard to make Perry seem at once triumphant but totally relatable that it veers toward a self-seriousness you won't find in her music, image or Hershey's Kiss bra.

Reiner has crafted the perfect summer film in The Magic Of Belle Isle. No, not one with a lot of noise and battles and comic book heroes, but rather a wonderfully laid back family story set around a gorgeous lake, about the everyday problems of real people from 7 to 70.

Beyond the Black Rainbow is the kind of movie whose cool-looking trailer entices you to midnight screenings, but the film will bore you so profoundly you'll fall asleep halfway and wake up disoriented during the closing credits.

Perry's latest is crudely assembled and mostly emotionally unengaging.

Fans of the 66-year-old guitar god (which is to say the only people who'll see this homespun gem) will revel in Young's winsome cruise down Memory Lane.

Savages is one of Stone's best movies with a ménage et trois love story giving some human dimension to its three young leads.

Meet the new face of superheroes: Marc Webb's totally teenage and totally fun take on the Spider-Man franchise.

Like "Anvil," this is a crowd-pleasing triumph of the spirit, framed around a story so bizarre it sounds like an urban legend.

Movies don't get much funnier than Ted.

By way of remarkable sleight-of-hand, Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike both is and is not the freewheeling, fun-loving, male stripper extravaganza its trailers peddle.

Williams embodies Margot's inner turmoil with an unfussy sense of terrified instability.

Seek this one out though, because it's too unique and too defiantly strange to survive for long in today's Darwinian and consumerist exhibition environment.

It's not nearly as snappy or campy as it should be-though its self-seriousness is its own kind of entertainment.

This film stands out as one of the year's best.

A charmingly lo-fi love story.

There's no denying the film's refrain that legends are lessons, but Brave is sadly remedial.

The Invisible War is that rare, issues-driven documentary that is so powerful it's apt to change minds.

That's My Boy has the same freewheeling appeal and potty-mouthed, go-for-broke mania of Sandler's earlier comedies. But there's a new undercurrent of energy that's likely the consequence of Sandler separating from his usual collaborators.

Too bad the film's obscure star will be a hard sell to non-music geeks or anyone born after 1965, because this film's a blast.