Brabbee, artistic director of the Nantucket Film Festival, is to be commended for her dedication to this project, but the film isn't hefty enough for a theatrical release. Public TV would be a better showcase.

The skillfully acted and directed The Lives of Others is a timely warning about governments that seek to repress dissent.

Turistas has mastered the international language: stupidity.

A low-key Field is the best thing about Two Weeks, which is set in a Wilmington, N.C., where everyone mysteriously sounds like he just got off a Los Angeles freeway.

You will be so put off by the bland couple (what do you expect from people named Joe and Jane?) and their dumb arguing - not to mention the grating score - that you won't really care.

One big hunk of cinematic moussaka with lots of appetizing shots of food.

A thought-provoking documentary that would go well on a double bill with Richard Linklater's fictional "Fast Food Nation."

There's a geyser of ambition in the visually stunning The Fountain, but the story of a thousand-year quest for the Fountain of Youth eventually trickles out.

It is a better option than the third "Santa Clause."

Starts out a lot like an expensive-looking episode of "CSI" before morphing into a solidly entertaining time-traveling romance.

The beginning and end are classics.

There's a pleasing tension in the air as their relationship comes to seem like something of a contest: With two women this needy, who will out-crazy the other?

A heartwarming family fable that parents and kids can enjoy.

Though it preserves the terrific lead performance of Richard Griffiths - best known to film audiences as Harry Potter's evil stepfather - The History Boys is essentially filmed theater, with minimal, and usually clumsy, attempts to take the action out of the classroom.

Eva Green...Gaspingly beautiful, wouldn't you say?

Happy Feet is not only the year's best animated movie, it's one of the year's best movies, period. Go.

A comedy that locks up Will Arnett's talent and throws away the key.

As the movie's feet get stuck in its own misery, it made me appreciate "Trainspotting" all over again - its wit, how it moved, the way any outcome for its characters seemed possible.

If I wanted to spend $10.75 making myself sick, I'd buy a bottle of cheap tequila.

For Your Consideration isn't quite in a class with Guest's earlier films like "Waiting for Guffman," "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind," which is not to say it isn't uproariously funny.

Mainstream audiences will be put off by the lack of a straightforward narrative, but adventurous moviegoers will find pleasure in the hypnotic originality of the images.

One of the year's worst movies.

For much of Flannel Pajamas I wondered if the couple's big problem was that Stuart was secretly gay. Nothing so interesting - he's just a narcissistic control freak and she's off-puttingly needy.

The movie is an entertaining stroll through a colorful gallery of characters including, in villain mode, former Metropolitan Museum of Art director Thomas Hoving. "She knows nothing. I am an expert," huffs Hoving, who is so nasty he might as well be wearing a monocle - making Horton that much more fun to root for.

May not be vintage stuff, but it goes down fairly smoothly.

If Martin Scorsese were 30 and a Los Angeleno, he'd be making movies much like this one.

The minimalist style keeps the suspense warm. The movie is unusual among teen horror flicks in that it largely avoids the usual cheap thrills and bursts of scare music. Instead, it carefully repeats isolated images and sound bites until they take on a shivery power.

A boldly original undertaking: It's the first movie ever to come up with the idea of remaking "The Truman Show."