Pity the crowds expecting another cute comedy like "Date Night" who wind up at Crazy, Stupid, Love. It'll be like asking for a burger and getting served escargot.

Even with a clever final twist straight out of "The Twilight Zone," this crummy-looking two-hander is a tough sit.

It's an engaging piece of filmmaking on its own, beautifully shot and acted.

The film is most effective when Geier, accompanied by a granddaughter, goes to Ukraine to speak at a school.

File this one in the same category of edgy Long Island comedies as the equally smart 2009 Alec Baldwin film "Lymelife."

Sarah's Key belongs to the Holocaust for Dummies section of Harvey Weinstein's History for Dummies series of mer etricious glossy dramas that ransack global events and turn them into middlebrow women's weepies to fill his trophy case.

Trouble is, the movie is only sporadically funny, and the concept soon grows tiresome. In fact, you could say that there's too much downtime in Autoerotic.

Chemistry is the usually misfiring engine that drives romantic comedies, so it's a pleasure to report that Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis are practically combustible together in Friends With Benefits.

Adding goofy uncertainty to shoulders as wide as the East River makes for a disarming hero in one of the spiffiest WWII action yarns ever to march out of Hollywood.

Alas, the complications don't arrive nearly quickly enough for the overlong and slow-paced Lucky to really cook.

By far the best scenes are shared by Sneider and his struggling but devoted mother, played by the seldom-seen Amanda Plummer.

A downer that too often resorts to melodrama.

Hugh Jackman appears briefly as Sophia's Aussie boyfriend, and gets to perform a lively song-and-dance number. But for some strange reason, his name isn't in the credits.

Be warned: The Tree is slow-moving, but if given a chance, it will (pardon the pun) grow on you.

This is all as pure and sunny as lemonade.

It's a reasonably funny religious satire that takes potshots at easy targets but is quite watchable due to the participation of two Oscar winners and two Oscar nominees.

The documentary Tabloid shows that an oddball lead character and a smirky style do not necessarily add up to a complete movie.

Everything a summer blockbuster should be but rarely is - a whip-smart, slam-bang piece of entertainment where we deeply care about the fate of the central characters.

There have been many untraditional film adaptations of Shakespeare's, but few have been as unorthodox as this one.

Offers well-chosen selections from Aleichem's darkly humorous work.

A long way from his TV portrayal of John Adams, Giamatti seems to be having an especially good time as a splenetic King John, who would not be out of place in a Monty Python movie.

Deep, disturbing and funny.

A must for hip-hop heads. Others will either be won over or left wondering what all the fuss is about.

Coincidence and contrivance are the name of the game throughout.

This film is no fairy tale for children. Not only does it contain nudity and sex, both straight and lesbian, but it also presents childhood as a time of terror.

A dull, by-the-numbers psych-ward horror thriller that's sadly a lot closer in quality to "Sucker Punch" than "Shutter Island."

Zookeeper barely avoids a zero-star rating because of James.

Idiocy can be funny, but let's not forget that for all of this movie's aspirations to be out-there, it relies on the staple of the sitcom mentality.