The film could have been improved if it had been less aggressively limp. But the post-adolescent, pre-adult moodiness is spot on: Everyone's favorite author is a bitter recluse, and the soundtrack heaves with the suicide sounds of Joy Division. Trier's intent is to reproduce a sweet, hazy vision of the agony of youth. Ever so elliptically, he succeeds.

Zalla constructs a suspenseful movie with no intention of sugarcoating the daily hardships of New York's underclass.

The dimly lit, exquisitely composed cinematography, by Guillermo Nieto, adds to the draw of this highly recommended movie.

This adventurously awful film is awful in many ways at once.

While this slow-starting update of "Private Lives" has plenty of laughs, the incredibly expressive (and too-seldom seen) Stevenson turns Julia's romantic dilemma into something genuinely moving. She makes A Previous Engagement something special.

I'd call it a depressing soft-core porn flick, but that overstates its titillation factor. Mainly it's just icky.

It's basically a Middle Eastern version of "The Princess Bride" with an assisted-suicide subplot.

The movie has enough big-city wickedness and merry cruelty to keep things skittering unpredictably.

Let the French stick to love stories and leave stupid comedies to Tinseltown.

I have a feeling that this is the last time we'll see a down-and-dirty Ellen Page. Her handlers have too much wrapped up in her mainstream persona to ever again allow her to do anything as daring and out of the loop as The Tracey Fragments. And that's a shame.

Turn the River lacks almost everything Eigeman has as a performer: charisma, wit and snappy delivery.

Laughs are few and far between in the innuendo-laden script attributed to Dana Fox, who's also responsible for the reprehensible "The Wedding Date."

Pity that the direction and narrative lack passion. If there's anything a story of interracial adultery needs, it's passion.

The film is an exposé only of a filmmaker's senseless contempt for the military.

As plodding and pretentious as it is ambitious.

With such smarts and outstanding special effects, I eagerly await a second Iron Man movie, which of course is virtually promised in the final scene.

It's something old, it's something new, it's something borrowed and it's something that blows.

Occasionally there is a striking image or a moment of wounded sweetness, but mainly the film provides ample proof that it's possible to be bizarre and boring at the same time.

This isn't Mamet at his finest, though, which leaves us with a script that is merely three times as smart as the average feature.

An '80s coming-of-age comedy with more energy than ideas.

Ines Efron and Martin Piroyanski give strong performances as Alex and Alvaro, respectively. Debuting director Lucia Puenzo, who co-scripted, tackles a dicey subject with sensitivity and taste.

Surely, if Fey herself had written Baby Mama, this mild cross between "Baby Boom" and "The Odd Couple" would not be so crushingly predictable.

Quickly devolves into a nonprescription alternative to Ambien.

Among the variations of gags from the original are a threesome involving Harold, Kumar and a giant bag of marijuana.

Roman de Gare translates as "station novel," a book you might pick up to read on a train journey and then discard when you arrive at your destination. Lelouch's film is the cinematic equivalent, enjoyable fluff that your mind will discard after the closing credits - but worth seeing nevertheless.

By the end, we wind up pretty much where we were four years ago when the pictures first appeared in the papers: Inexperienced troops did disgusting things, but it's a mystery who else knew.

While there are plenty of laughs, Hunt doesn't play this for farce. Even Midler gives perhaps the most restrained, and arguably the most winning, performance of her screen career.

By far the film's most interesting subject is the king's eldest daughter, 18-year-old Princess Sikhanyiso, who likes to be known as Pashu. She's a self-styled rapper who goes to a Catholic college in California and acts like the spoiled rich kid that she is.