One of the most pessimistic movies about love Hollywood has ever made, a star-studded, glossy anti-date movie.

The result is one of the most visually astonishing martial-arts fantasies ever made.

An enchanting romantic comedy between two lost souls in the most unexpected of places.

A film based on this information is potentially interesting, but Conspiracy of Silence, set in modern-day Ireland, is incoherent and often hard to follow.

It's just exhausting. For all of the movie's sumptuous, eyepopping craft, you'll feel more than a little relief when Mathilde finally reaches the end of her quest.

The light-hearted fun seeps out of the movie, replaced by trite interludes of coming-out angst.

What Alexander lacks in narrative clarity, it makes up for with pomp and pageantry.

They pull it off, but even if you believe in Santa, you'll never believe that this is any sort of holiday classic.

It's a small, heartening slice of life that feels like a crucial step toward something bigger.

It's a tomb-raiding adventure movie several notches below Indiana Jones status.

Rarely delivers anything above and beyond the scope of the series.

Almodóvar has never been shy about experimenting with plot structure, but Bad Education is the closest he's ever come to a metamovie, the sort of self-reflective, hall-of-mirrors contraption on which Charlie Kaufman has built his career.

The events in this film take place in the 1980s. Let's hope working conditions in Japan have "westernized."

If nothing else, You I Love delivers a brisk and spirited little taste of contemporary Russian culture through the eyes of three spontaneous, unpredictable and oddly charming characters.

Harrelson certainly proves an entertaining foil to Brosnan's more refined thief.

Washes over you with an enjoyable gloss, and it might even make you cry a little, but it evaporates in memory like fairy dust.

An uninspired, sporadically funny adaptation that falls short of the book's winsome, frisky chaos.

The movie's scientific content is so fascinating that it almost feels like a bonus that Kinsey himself is such an intriguing figure.

There's something to be said about an old story given a new ending -- and making it work.

Shameless in its desperate grab at the heartstrings.

It's a good, old-fashioned North Pole adventure.

Despite a last-minute attempt to bring poignancy to the tale, you don't walk away from Overnight feeling sorry for Duffy as much as you are glad you never met him.

Such smooth, crisp entertainment, you barely even notice it has nothing new to say.

Cachorro's main flaw is in its ending, which seems somewhat abrupt and unfinished, but these characters have become so endearing by then that it hardly seems to matter.

Melodramatic realism is the wrong genre to tell the tale of a figure whose life was already over-the-top melodramatic.

He'll be back; he's already back. But that doesn't mean the ''farewell'' wasn't worth it.

A visually thrilling experience.

If Ray fails to present a genuine portrait of a complex man's essence, it does leave you with an even greater sense of awe for Charles' accomplishments, both in his personal and public lives.