Undermines its serious undertones with an avalanche of smirky cynicism designed to flatter the hipper-than-thou fantasies of adolescent moviegoers.

Old-fashioned storytelling.

As clumsy as its title.

Shallow and sentimental in the sappiest Hollywood tradition.

The violent story is standard "film noir" fare, but Soderbergh treats it with oomph and imagination.

Swank gives one of the year's most complex and hard-hitting performances in the demanding central role.

Quirky acting combines with Ferrara's dark, brooding style to give the throwaway story a noteworthy measure of dramatic and cinematic interest.

Russell's stylish and imaginative filmmaking wages its own war against lunkheaded and sometimes offensive material.

This good-natured comedy serves up plenty of laughs while suggesting that the best experts in human psychology are plain old humans.

The story is unmemorable, but the characters are engaging and their predicaments are all too recognizable.

More cautionary than titillating...some of it (is) deliberately disturbing.

This sentimental drama is wildly uneven as it switches between ballpark scenes, which are very involving, and romantic episodes, which are badly overplayed.

Closer to an infomercial than a serious study, but it serves up plenty of rowdy humor.

Araki graduates from his usual obsession with teenage angst in this neon-lighted comedy, but fails to hit the visual and verbal high notes he strains so hard to reach.

A ruthless dissection of suburban malaise.

Excellent acting and a finely tuned screenplay spark this genuinely offbeat melodrama.

Their shenanigans rarely run short of explosive energy.

Fantasy-style plot doesn't mesh easily with the unsettling psychological themes woven through it.

The story is lively and energetic, if you can take its raunchy jokes and rowdy behavior.

It's so clean a film, you could bring your grandmother.

Moviegoers tired of ethnic humor will find plenty to complain about.

Bowfinger is mediocre . . . can be irksome, tedious, and hard to sit through.

The movie will disappoint people expecting a genuine superhero epic or an over-the-top spoof. But those in the mood for an offbeat satire with a gifted cast will have a surprisingly good time.

This remarkably clever, often hilarious animation derives much of its humor from its satirical view of the 1950s.

The thriller's best and worst features all stem from a highly unusual plot structure that builds to a genuinely startling conclusion.

The screenplay provides enough cute one-liners and love-struck speeches to give the comedy intermittent charm.

The Haunting can't quite decide whether it's an out-and-out thriller, a psychological drama, or a systematic demonstration of the latest computer-generated effects. But it should attract big crowds for a weekend or two on the strength of its attractive stars and deliciously spooky setting.

Brilliantly filmed in his usual transfixing style, Kubrick's last movie pleads for alertness to the temptations that assail human nature from within and without.