A brutal shocker that is difficult to watch.

Only mildly diverting and way too long for a movie aimed at kids.

A great-looking but torturously slow and often hokey cross between "The Exorcist" and "Dirty Harry."

A witless and vulgar sequel.

Becomes more and more confused, unpleasant and preposterous.

It's like "Waiting for Guffman" without the wit or irony.

It's the well-wrought details that explain, perhaps better than any earlier film, how an entire country bought into Hitler's genocidal madness.

This is ultimately a sunny movie full of likable characters.

A sweet and charming treat.

This isn't a war movie. Rather, it's a powerful, heart-tugging portrait of the innocent victims of conflict.

The highlight of this package of 12 recent animated shorts from around the world is Australia's "Ward 13."

Sitting through three totally unrelated documentaries in a row -- with all that puzzling (subtitled) dialogue and those long (enigmatic) silences? That's a migraine waiting to happen.

Having root-canal surgery would be less painful than sitting through the martial-arts disaster Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior.

You could do worse for a date movie than Gurinder Chadha's campy, exuberant cross-cultural take on Austen's much-filmed 1812 novel.

To enjoy this film, it helps to check your brain at the box office.

A thorough but highly entertaining documentary details the making of the notorious 1972 film, the series of legal battles that helped make it immensely popular and the flick's considerable cultural legacy.

A thoughtful, provocative film that understandably ruffled a few feathers in its native Italy -- the portrayal of the church is far less than beatific.

In the charming new documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, we learn all about the tragedy and comedy of being a bird on the loose in San Francisco.

This Disney film is all pretty simple, with messages about bigotry and ignorance, friendship and growing up. But at least they don't hit you over the head with them.

Produced for peanuts (and looks it), but offers enough laughs to please even those who don't usually venture into downtown art houses.

In the last 20 minutes, the film moves as breathlessly as a Hollywood thriller -- only it's much more frightening, because it's true.

The MPAA's rating explanation for this PG-13-rated snoozer misleadingly claims it contains "intense sequences of terror/violence"; it would be more accurate to state that Boogeyman contains "virtually every horror-movie cliché of the past 30 years."

A witless, stale and half-hearted rehash of cliches borrowed from the likes of "The Wedding Planner," "The Wedding Singer" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral," this pathetic, alleged comedy certainly wasn't improved by clueless direction by Clare Kilner.

The dreamy drama Emile shows how a talented cast can turn a tentative plot into pleasant viewing.

If boy bands weren't already passé, Harry and Max would finish the job.

Kore-eda presents the deeply moving story in a documentary style that is both gentle and compelling.

Horn bookends his documentary with clips from "It Came From Outer Space."

Grows ever more manipulative and predictable.