It's hard to tell whether these characters are meant to seem as staunchly symbolic as they do when they deliver some of the back-story-heavy dialogue.

An ounce of self-awareness about its almost gleeful use of cliches would have improved this dance soap opera.

First-time directors Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski must have written the script for this comedy when they were about 12--and not changed a word.

Seems like a miscalculation on multiple levels.

Almereyda's respect for his audience and his queasiness about the present register with equal weight, reinventing the poetry in the most relevant ways possible.

Like the painter, it's painstakingly serious about what it's up to.

Effective portrait of an independent woman with a troubled and unstable sense of herself.

The plot is more convenient than intriguing, the characters more cartoonish than iconic--especially the heroine, who grapples with feminism in a way that should have been fascinating.

Ultimately the movie is alluring and respectful--its sadness may be what saves it from becoming sensationalist or trite.

Unlike Michael Jordan, this 45-minute large-format movie demonstrates mostly unrealized potential.

Clunky and obvious.

The script by producer David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson is serviceable but not exactly inspired.

As disposable fun, this is every bit as enjoyable and as forgettable as most Hollywood equivalents.

The lawyer is marvelously played by Evelina Fernandez, who wrote the screenplay based on her play.

DeVito's low-key midlife crisis is consistently moving, but Spacey, saddled with the role of provocateur, is demonically boring.

This romantic comedy turns stereotypes inside out as the main character, whose sense of commitment is represented by a tattoo on her finger instead of a wedding ring.

Quaid's buoyant earnestness complements the stunning, low-key performance by Caviezel, whose close-ups give new meaning to the idea that still waters run deep.

The coincidences that bring some characters together and keep others apart in this romantic comedy are plotted with musical grace.

This is thoughtful nihilist provocation at best.

The filmmakers uphold an unfortunate tradition in movies based on TV shows by busily adding superfluous plot elements.

An irrefutable triumph of engineering, and it entertained and intrigued me through two separate viewings...though as a view of the human condition it's astonishingly and depressingly meager.

Moving in fits and starts, mawkish in its sincerity, and at times disjointed in its lumpy structure.

The twists and revelations of this rigorous noir reduce it to canned psychodrama.

The message must have got lost somewhere in the plot twists of this would-be topical thriller about the power of hearsay on a college campus.

This gorgeous expressionist drama makes the comparisons so effectively at the outset that by the end they seem belabored.

Nearly toothless 1998 existential drama.

Yet another unironic war movie.

A very curious and eclectic piece of work--fresh even when it's awkward.