The agony of invention is there on the screen.

Made me feel like I was sitting in McDonald's watching some guy shout at his kids. Price of Glory gives us two hours of that behavior, and it's a miscalculation so basic that it makes the movie painful when it wants, I guess, to be touching.

Bright and zesty.

So ludicrous in so many different ways it achieves a kind of forlorn grandeur.

Causes us to leave the theater quite unreasonably happy.

Slides too easily into its sentimentality; the characters should have put up more of a struggle.

Has a good heart and some fine performances, but is too muddled at the story level to involve us emotionally.

A family film that shames the facile commercialism of a product like "Pokemon" and its value system based on power and greed.It is made with delicacy and beauty.

So rich in atmosphere it makes Western films look pale and underpopulated.

It involves teenagers who have never existed, doing things no teenager has ever done, for reasons no teenager would understand. Of course, it's aimed at the teenage market.

(Li)'s scenes are so clearly computer-aided that his moves are about as impressive as Bugs Bunny doing the same.

A screenplay with the depth and insight of a cable-TV docudrama.

Isn't a slick documentary; some of it feels like Blaustein's home movie about being a wrestling fan. But it has a hypnotic quality.

Will no doubt be a hit and inspire the obligatory sequels.

I can't recommend Mission to Mars.

The kind of movie that leaves you with fundamental objections. But that's after it's over. While it's playing, it's surprisingly good.

Here is the most uncomfortable movie of the new year, an exercise in feel-good smut.

Weirdly intriguing.

My problem was that I didn't care who killed Mona Dearly, or why, and didn't want to know anyone in town except for Chief Rash and his daughter.

A garage sale of gay issues, harnessed to a plot as exhausted as a junkman's horse.

If you have ever wondered what kind of person volunteers to become a human bomb, and what they think about in the days before their death, this film wonders, too.

A sweet film, mildly pleasant to watch, but it's not worth the trip or even a detour.

If a movie like this had a neat ending, the ending would be a lie. We do not want answers, but questions and observations.

If the story is immensely satisfying in a traditional way, the style has its own delights.

The most accurate movie about campus life that I can remember.

The first All Talking Killer picture. After the setup, it consists mostly of characters explaining their actions to one another.

Clever, done with skill, yet lacking in the cerebral imagination of the best science fiction.

It is fairly lighthearted, under the circumstances; like "Catch-22," it enjoys the paradoxes that occur when you try to apply logic to war.