Despite being full of Oscar-winning talent, this is still just a better-dressed, drawn-out episode of "Touched by an Angel."

A jauntily entertaining ride.

80 minutes of comic mistiming and missed opportunities.

A genre-busting film that deserves to be seen.

This is such seductive entertainment that you might as well stop grousing and give in.

An earnest but fatally amateurish and stereotypical melodrama about fraternity hazing.

At best a vaguely Semitic episode of "The Wonder Years."

The only thing about this movie that will haunt you is its boggling ineptitude.

Easily the best directorial debut of the year, and possibly the most mature and haunting film to ever come out of Scotland, Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher is a throat-catching masterpiece of lyricism, observation, and stone-cold realism.

Too much of a study in formalism to register deeply on an emotional level.

It's a polished, beautifully made movie with a rotten heart.

McKenna's script is a frayed string and a contextual nightmare, peppered with puzzling references to the first film in a lame attempt at homage.

A sentimental slice of 1950s Italian-American life that doesn't soft-pedal its characters' simmering prejudices within their insulated community, or pander to their dreams of getting out.

The one movie so far this year that every filmgoer should see, if only to get a big dose of what we've been missing from Hollywood.

Emblematic of the man's (Oshima) career: ironic, ambiguous, sublime.

None of the movie's abundant humor is better than faintly amusing.

If Lee's intention was to cement our loathing of blackface comedy, he's succeeded all too well.

It's funny. Really funny.

Never the heart-wrenching emotional experience it seems intended to be.

"Footloose" meets "The Full Monty" in Bootmen, a cliché-ridden tap dance drama.

A modest project with an agreeably modest point of view, but it cries out for a sharp, believable naturalism Kusama simply doesn't supply.

Pushes the standard tropes of gay romance movies a few more steps toward full-blown cliché-dom.

At their trenchant, tuneful best, the Barenaked Ladies take flip comic spins on serious subjects (alcoholism, heartbreak). But offstage, they have nothing of substance to reveal.

Ultimately nothing more than a live-action cartoon. A high-minded, inspiring cartoon, but a cartoon nonetheless.

Beautiful it ain't, but it is kind of cute.

It's got enough hilarious moments that, all in all, the film's bite is as toothsome as its bark.

The narrative disjointedness is not at all relieved by confusing editing, an uncertain tone, and a dragging pace that makes the film a progressively dreary experience.

Fans starving for some song and dance celluloid may be satiated, but this movie version really shows the material's age.