We watched a story of a Labrador. Who eats the couch and disobeys. I said to Lady, "It's a labra-bore."

A taut suspense flick for grown-ups.

Haunting is the best word for Waltz With Bashir, a striking animated documentary - not an oxy moron, despite how it sounds - from Israel.

The cast is solid, with standout performances by first-timer Habib Boufares as Slimane.

More like Disney's "Sleeping Beauty," somber, slow and elegant instead of frantic and dazzling.

The first time I saw Yes Man, I thought the concept was getting kind of stale toward the end. As it turns out, that was only the trailer.

The Class offers no Hollywood ending, but is rewarding for those up to the challenge.

A pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies.

Preposterous romantic melodrama, which uses a fractured narrative to cloud an absurd plot that would probably be laughed off the screen if it were presented in a straightforward manner.

Nothing But the Truth is like listening to the fourth-best debater in middle school present a term paper called "Politics, Power and the Media."

Glosses over the depression and alcoholism that have bedeviled Walker as well as any relationships he might have had. But that doesn't make the film any less interesting.

The Wrestler offers something to pretty much everyone in the audience. Much like "The Sopranos," it creates a world that might make you feel utterly at home or exhilarated by strange horrors. Maybe both.

According to rumors swirling on the Internet, an English-language remake is already in the works, possibly directed by David Cronenberg.

One of the big problems here is that, despite much exposition, the nature of Klaatu's mission on Earth isn't at all clear.

Goldblum's wobbly German accent and the staginess of the script doom this effort by Paul Schrader ("American Gigolo").

I love musicals, but I'd be hard-pressed to recommend this curiosity, sort of a shoestring version of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Cotton Club."

A few magic rocks and tepid battle scenes do little to inspire interest in the goings-on as Malcolm McDowell and Eric Idle spout villainy and punch lines, respectively.

A feast of great acting, although in the final analysis it's a filmed stage play rather than a brilliant movie.

It's also a terrific, career-capping role for Eastwood, who claims he's now retired as an actor. He shows off his comic chops more fully than in any film since "Bronco Billy" more than a quarter-century ago.

What's Spanglish for "oy"?

This is a rare case of a movie that improves dramatically as it goes along.

Directed by Susan Montford, While She Was Out is a straight-to-DVD movie making a brief stop in theaters.

You can't spell cliché without Che. And as I endured this mad dream directed - or perhaps committed - by Steven Soderbergh, I wondered where I'd seen it all before. The booted stomping through the greensward, the jungly target shooting? It's a remake of Woody Allen's "Bananas," right?

Although the script works in a couple of pages of collegiate-level ethical debate about "the question of German guilt," what the movie is really interested in is the question of German sex. So think of it as "Schindler's Lust."

Reichardt doesn't so much tell a story as paint a finely detailed portrait of human suffering in this miniature marvel.

Sheen, who is also reprising his stage role and appeared as Tony Blair in the Morgan-written "The Queen," is highly effective as Frost - though the stakes for Frost are nowhere near as interesting as those for Nixon.

Doesn't sugarcoat the difficulties faced by this family, but this small gem has a very satisfying ending.

The film's most memorable performance is by Eamonn Walker, who is scarily good as the singer known as Howlin' Wolf.