It's Lathan -- with her passionate performance, physical grace and drop-dead-gorgeous looks -- who makes Love and Basketball so entertaining.

Too long, too predictable.

Fascinating.

It's little more than a loose assemblage of Hollywood action movie formulas: "Dirty Harry" and assorted cop/buddy flicks are the clear models for the movie.

(Herron) just doesn't make the case that this book was worth filming.

A reminder of why Bullock became a movie star in the first place.

Utterly lacks the spark that makes caper movies fun.

Stars the cult celebrity Om Puri, widely considered by cinephiles to be one of the best actors in the world.

Wargnier is also a lousy storyteller who seems not to understand how to shape a narrative.

It's hard to think of a single memorable line from Restaurant, even a memorably bad one.

It's the hardships that led to Atlanta -- and that he faced after -- that make his story so compelling.

Stays with you, though, not because of its political content, but because of the unexpected emotional punch that's thrown near the end.