Pleasant and has not a few laughs.

An odd, unexpectedly interesting little movie.

Tried to turn this into a replay of its 2000 military-rescue hitBlack Hawk Down -- though, in the end, it's almost totally lacking in the serious hardware and viscerally paced action that propelled Ridley Scott's movie to the top of the box office.

It makes not just the "Thief of Baghdad" and the junky Ray Harryhausen movies of the '60s and '70s but even Disney's recent "Aladdin" seem positively multicultural by comparison.

It's a shame, because the actors are so much better than the threadbare material.

Michael Moore makes many of the same points, with far more impact, in "Bowling for Columbine."

The film repeatedly disappoints because Sandler and his director...have so little faith in focusing on the two characters' plight that they interrupts the romance repeatedly for vulgar, Farrelly brothers-style sexual and ethnic jokes that are so relentlessly unfunny they may not even rouse Sandler's core constituency of 12-year-old males.

Frey's harrowing depiction of this milieu transcends the indifferent acting and contrived plot.

Many of Kampmeier's characters are either ill-defined or clichéd.

The story is told in fractured time. This might not be a problem if his visuals were more fear-inducing.

A 42-minute TV soap has more story than this limp and familiar tale of domestic woe.

Like “Traffic’’ on a massive dose of downers, Ridley Scott’s The Counselor is a great-looking and star-filled but lethally pretentious, talky, lethargic drama.

It’s not quite “Once,” but Song One, featuring original music by Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice, captures a similar, unselfconscious beauty in the way music can make sense of big, ungainly emotions — as James puts it, “for three to five whole minutes.”

Not an easy movie to watch, and it's far from perfect - but it does have an artsy integrity and a fascinatingly intense performance by Paul Giamatti.

Formerly a maker of bad, but at least angry, movies, Spike Lee now seems to be trying to be the world's oldest student filmmaker. Take out the rookie mistakes from Red Hook Summer, and there'd be nothing left.

Michael J. Bassett's Solomon Kane is been there, done that.

Despite this seemingly surefire premise and cast of veteran comedians - there's even a cameo by Liza Minnelli as a masturbation coach - The OH in Ohio just lies there, without a single laugh.

It's perfectly entertaining (and well-executed) in its cute, undemanding way.

You might be tempted to walk out. Don't.

The gleeful teen-horror spoof that proves that the Farrelly brothers have no monopoly on outrageous, politically incorrect comedy.

The contrast between Chan's charm and physical prowess and Tucker's lack of same is even more dramatic in this tiresome, leaden sequel.

Becomes almost laughably melodramatic and wields just about every rock-movie cliché in the book.

Might have worked as a 10-minute sketch.

Argento keeps the suspense level high while throwing in trademark cringe-inducing moments.

Incoherent, laugh-free comedy.

An extremely awkward cross between "Ocean's Eleven" and "Rain Man."

This Disney sequel to 2013’s “Planes” is a lot like flying coach: serviceable, but not trying that hard.

It's not asking much that a thriller be scary or shocking. This one waffles between being predictable and absurd.