For the first 100 minutes or so I found this hokey but serviceable; after that my watch became more meaningful than anything I could locate on-screen.

The usual valorizing of guns and vigilante justice and tedious action sequences to begin and end the picture.

The behind-the-scenes revelations are thoroughly convincing.

Makes for a tiresome antidrama populated mainly by unambiguously good characters who might as well be invulnerable.

The force of the social criticism is diminished by contrivance and the inclusion of peripheral material.

Instructive comedy, which is marvelously neutral toward a type of sexual and domestic relationship that's often exploited or overblown.

A brilliant satirical diagnosis of what's most screwed up about life in this country, especially when it comes to sexual frustration and kiddie porn.

Disarming-misfit story, which combines elements of a road movie, romance, small-town idyll, and police procedural.

Exploits all the cliches about shrewish women and pussy-whipped men without achieving satire.

Unfortunately the allegory tends to overpower the characterizations even as it deepens them.

There's something almost wearying as well as exhilarating about the perpetual brilliance of Bosnian-born filmmaker Emir Kusturica.

This serious if assaultively stylish meditation on faith uses traditional elements of religion-based horror in a way that's more innocent than calculating.

The narrative kept me glued to my seat.

Smug, uninsightful light drama.

The stunt work is pretty good, the brain work close to nonexistent.

Overwhelmingly grisly.

Full of meaningless tragedies left unjustified by the absurdly optimistic ending .. (an) intolerable story.

Slow, arty thriller.

The execution of the script is perfect, as always, but it's the laziest script Brooks has ever directed.

This terrible live-action comedy based on Jay Ward cartoons has its moments and its near misses.

This earnest yet cynical drama makes the gang-infiltration genre seem exhausted.

The story is painfully slow.

Many of the gags rely on the incongruity of Grant's nervous, cultured character posing as an Italian-American stereotype, but they're subverted by his earnest relationship with his fiancee, whose affection hardly seems worth the trouble.

Must have been slapped together fast: live-action stunts created by uninspired editing lead up to computer-generated imagery that's just as lame.

This engrossing animated thriller (2000) somehow displays realist gore, nudity, and sexual violence in a tone not too far from that of a children’s adventure; its innocence stems in part from the convincing naivete of the heroine.

Director Jonathan Kaplan clearly has a feel for the material, but he's at the mercy of a pedestrian script by David Arata and producer Adam Fields.

Enjoyable but thin.

Unlike the many youth movies that can't overcome their makers' hindsight, this one may actually put you in an adolescent frame of mind.