This is a movie that proposes a genuine, intelligent solution, both for the main character and for us. It comes at you kinda quickly (and economically, in about three wordless shots), but it hit me like a bag of dumpster-dived apples to the gut.

It's provocative and very moving, filled with some of the strongest performances of the year.

Over the course of two-and-a-half hours, the film not only gets up on wobbly legs but learns to dance by the closing credits.

Ferociously inventive.

Fascinating noir, which will long be remembered for its extraordinary lead performance by Catherine Deneuve.

The result is a movie that turns the financial phenomenon of Web startups -- the crazy kids with ideas, and the crazier bankers with more money than sense -- into a moving human drama.

What makes A Simple Plan an exciting, thoughtful thriller isn't the plot twists, but the twists and turns of Hank's tortured conscience as one lie leads to bigger and deadlier deceits.

The most exuberantly funny and smartest teen movie this summer, which is something to cheer about.

All of it is vital and involving, and some of it is hilarious...I've rarely seen a group of people in a darkened theater react as viscerally as they do to Reservoir Dogs.

What ensues is never exactly unpredictable, but always witty, fresh and fun.

A completely different order of cinematic existence than any other film you're likely to see in the near or distant future.

It's very funny and - at times - even witty in a crude, drunken frat-boy-with-an-epiphany kind of way.

I liked this film better the second time around.

A kicky little comedy that shows Quentin Tarantino's influence is alive and well in Japan.

The film version of this civilized beauty, captures the amusing gloss of the story but not the sense that something grave is going on beneath it all.

Hanks gives possibly the most compelling performance of his career.

(Cusack)'s genius, however, is in his continual ability to be the most likeable of everymen.

A pulsing, wooshing, visceral experience that amounts to great fun and an entirely disposable movie.

Typically low-key and lovely.

If Unforgiven occasionally overstates its case, this is the best work Eastwood has done as a director since The Outlaw Josey Wales 16 years ago.

By turns amusing, touching and horrifying, A Room For Romeo Brass is a film that defies expectation at every turn.

It's a sweet and wise film - neither groundbreaking nor revolutionary save for the fact that it places narrative and character arc at the center of its concerns.

A bawdy and belligerent comedy, meant mostly for folks looking for nothing more than to enjoy a few laughs.

The Trip to Italy is plenty enjoyable for fans of the first one and these two, but by the end, it also has the consistency of reheated comfort food.

The film has enough charm and humor to keep it appealing to a wide audience, and dumbing things down doesn’t feel particularly smart or canny, and proves to be a minor distraction to an otherwise majorly entertaining feature.

In a season stuffed with empty eye candy, 2 Guns comes along as something of a welcome burrito — plenty satisfying and hardly nutritious.

An emotionally punishing experience.

There’s charm and delight here, to be sure, but it is occasionally obscured by attempts to make it somehow darker, deeper, and more dramatic.