Sophisticated entertainment of the less-is-more school.

There are some decent actors and great costumes in this overly solemn compendium of rock clichés.

Ultra-glossy weepie turns out to be something of a guilty pleasure.

Entertaining, extravagantly emotional.

An ideal antidote to the big-budget bores that studios put out in late summer, The Tao of Steve is a charming, funny and refreshingly smart Gen-X romantic comedy in the tradition of "When Harry Met Sally" - with the bonus of an engagingly laid-back Southwestern flavor.

A real high in a season filled with unfunny comedies.

Sounds bleak, but turns out to be an absorbing and lively film.

Charles Busch's spoof of beach-party movies and psychological thrillers, an off-Broadway hit 13 years ago, stubbornly refuses to entertain in this unrelentingly dull film version.

Expertly directed, acted and written crowd-pleaser.

There's no limit to Coyote Ugly's crass shamelessness.

Boasts special effects that are really spectacular - too bad it lacks flesh-and-blood characters.

This inferior sequel is doomed by a lousy - and extremely vulgar - script.

Leconte turns up the erotic heat in the most gorgeously photographed black-and-white film since Wim Wenders' sublime "Wings of Desire."

Its superb performances, music, photography, dialogue, its rhythms of tone and theme all complement each perfectly.

Ranges from exquisitely sensitive to crass, but overall, it's an interesting effort.

Poetic but tedious and all but plotless.

Skin-crawlingly awful.

Under the direction of Allan Moyle ("Pump up the Volume"), Nairn, McCarthy and Balaban give confident, believable performances but overacting plagues the rest of the cast.

It's highly entertaining, even if it's almost entirely one-sided.

It's fascinating and moving all the same, both in its depiction of Iranian daily life and in its powerful portrait of female oppression.

The film is only 91 minutes long, but it seemed to stretch out for days.

Best watched while doing a crossword or reading the paper.

If you're able to check your brain at the popcorn stand, you'll stand a much better chance of enjoying this crowd pleaser.

Francois Ozon, perhaps France's hottest director of the moment, is often better creating stylish visuals than dramatically credible situations, but Criminal Lovers is never boring.

Even duller than the original, but will fulfill its function as a feature-length commercial for Pokemon merchandise.

Rather morbid.

A laughably bad B-thriller.

In spite of (its) flaws, Fear of Fiction is an intense film with many touching and funny moments.