Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan are superb as the couple, who use the occasion to drop bombs on each other.

Impressively, however, director Elizabeth Banks keeps the powder gags fresh throughout, as the mammal maims her way through a Southern forest preserve. The movie about blow never blows.

Daring, mesmerizing and exceedingly hard to forget.

Good for Lee for being a director of many ideas in a heartless Hollywood of sequels and franchises.

More than lives up to its clever positioning as the first movie of the new millennium.

It's brilliant work.

Isn't just scary, charming and delightfully unpredictable - it's also smarter and subtler than any new movie out there.

A dizzying lowlife saga that’s fast, smart, wicked, sort of ambitious and blazingly ironic. It’s as unpredictable as a Lindsay Lohan drive to the grocery store, as overstuffed as the pictures on Anthony Weiner’s Twitter feed and as hilarious as me on the bench press.

An entertaining piece of pulp fiction.

The best thing Baldwin has done in years, and a triumph of low-budget storytelling by a director to watch.

Saltburn has a brain, no doubt about it, but it also has a script that’s written in jet fuel.

Captain Fantastic isn’t only one of the year’s best movies, but one of the best cast and best acted, right down to the smaller roles.

Brilliant star Michael B. Jordan does double-duty in “III,” returning to play Adonis Creed and directing a film for the first time — the man is a champ at both athletics and aesthetics.

You won’t see a better performance by an actress on film this year than Julianne Moore as a linguistics professor struggling to hold onto her personality after a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s in the unforgettable drama Still Alice.

Chico and Rita beguiles first and foremost as a bebop romance that evokes a bygone era as well as, or maybe even better than, "The Artist."

Miami Vice isn't an action flick but a neo-noir: tough, quiet, moody and hard.

At age 76, Loach also decided to offer his characters, and audience, some hope — at the bottom of a glass.

Uses the compelling true story of the triumph of the Enigma code-breakers as background for an invented but believable story of love, betrayal and heroism.

A remarkable accomplishment. It takes one of the century's vast tragedies...and makes it heart-rendingly real and intimate.

Mighty entertainment that makes you feel sorry for the saps next door in the multiplex.

It is an important, thoroughly bewitching work of art.

Isn't quite as accessible or as deeply moving as his masterpiece, "All About My Mother." It's a tad too self-consciously a work of art for that. But it's still a must-see for anyone who's halfway serious about film.

If you want to celebrate the life of legendary actor Brian Dennehy, who died last month at age 81, start with one of his final films: Driveways. His performance as a widowed veteran is right up there with his finest screen work, which makes his passing all the sadder.

Few documentaries have covered such an important matter so convincingly and with such clarity. When it comes to public education, we are all New Jerseyans.

Engrossing and exhilarating documentary.

What a gift Zeitlin has with children. He showed that special skill with “Beasts,” but does even more so here, with the kid ensemble being full of personality and entirely unrestrained. The freedom and unbridled joy they find on the island are infectious, like their movie.

What a trippy delight it is.

Blue Caprice takes a minimalist, documentary-style approach that proves harrowingly effective.