Confused and dramatically overwrought.

Spears, Davis, and company are well aware that they're making nothing more than the cinematic equivalent of Spears' glossy bubble gum pop -- but that's exactly the problem.

See Scratch for the history, see Scratch for the music, see Scratch for a lesson in scratching, but, most of all, see it for the passion.

Luckily, the genuinely funny jokes far outnumber the duds in the film itself, which is helped by the generally energetic performances by Broken Lizard and their co-stars.

With its simplistic, didactic approach, the presence of a top-flight ensemble is the only thing separating John Q from your average TV movie of the week.

Wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd, but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time.

More criminal than the lack of inspiration in Return to Never Land is the absence of a sense of magic.

It's throwback, formula Ah-nuld all the way, a straightforward and simple revenge thriller.

A thoroughly awful Korean production which vainly attempts to recast the slam-bang conventions of American action-adventure flicks into the sticky world of contemporary Korean politics.

This should have been a black comic masterpiece. The cast is certainly up to the task, even in the small roles.

Will surely end up as one of this year’s worst films.

A hilarious film for anyone who remembers lying as a kid-- and anyone who wants to see a movie that's just plain fun.

Were it not for the presence of higher-level acting talent, A Rumor of Angels would have been a banal TV movie.

Starts out as a first-rate chick movie and winds up a second-rate guy movie. But if this somehow proves to be a formula for the perfect date movie, then Kidman is even more brilliant than we thought.

The title not only describes its main characters, but the lazy people behind the camera as well.

Individual parts are actually quite funny, and the music, the most marketable element, is quite good. It's just that most of us cringe at photos of ourselves taken while we're really loaded. Too often, Hey, Happy! feels as if that embarrassment was taken to the next level.

A masterful comedy that will divide audiences, but it left me laughing hysterically. I hope that doesn’t make you think I’m a sick bastard, but if so, piss off.

Not too far below the gloss you can still feel director Denis Villeneuve's beating heart and the fondness he has for his characters. Because he does, you and I can too.

Moretti's actual direction is always simple, perhaps plain, but this no-frills approach allows him to gently craft a story full of poignant episodes, building toward a melancholy but genuinely uplifting conclusion.

Writer/director Gary Burns offers a suffocating experience which is too boring to be accepted as a satire, too lame to be accepted as a farce, and too infantile to be accepted as a drama.

The film tells an engaging swashbuckler on its own terms, and that's what director Kevin Reynolds has done with this old-fashioned romp of revenge.

There's a natural authenticity to the film that makes it intensely watchable, even though it's repetitive and slightly underwritten.

An entertaining and chilling film that will make you question what you believe about myths and the supernatural.

They should have produced this in 3D for IMAX as Metropolis is the kind of work destined to blow the minds of stoners everywhere.

A monstrosity of a movie that I am all too eager to forget.

Like a slug that crawls across the screen for eighty minutes before dying of its own nausea.

Ultimately sinks beneath the waves of the Caspian Sea.

Incredibly dull.