It's so painful to sit through you eventually stop feeling sorry for the floundering cast.

While the film contains some terrific, realistically bloody battle scenes, it has a distinctly Germanic feel, both in its epic heaviness and in the peculiar way it revises the history of the American Revolution.

The film's earthy frankness is refreshing.

Doesn't quite reach the heights - though it does plumb the depths - of its hugely popular predecessor. But it will have an enormous, appreciative audience doubled over with belly-busting laughs.

Like many first films, Boricua's Bond is wildly uneven.

It is not only an amazing technical accomplishment, it's also the wittiest and best-voiced animated movie to come along in years.

In the end, it is inadequate, juiceless storytelling that deprives Titan A.E. of any dramatic force.

Shaft is what summer action flicks should be... thanks to superior writing, acting and direction.

Transcends ironic grunge-glamour and achieves a beguiling combination of dark comedy and genuine sweetness.

If you go with the flow, there's seductive imagery and a terrific performance by John Malkovich as a decadent baron.

It's a film noir spoof, replete with hard-boiled narration, lounge-music soundtrack and dramatic black-and-white photography.

Maddeningly pretentious and often slow to the point of tedium, Humanite is also hauntingly original and truly strange.

Butterfly doesn't require much knowledge of history to appreciate, but it really isn't suitable for very young audiences either.

Calling Boys and Girls the year's worst movie makes it sound more entertaining than it actually is.

Contains too many weak performances and predictable lines to succeed, but it's probably the best rave movie so far.

A self-indulgent chronicle of Chris Roe's whiny power struggle with his father over where to eat dinner in various exotic locales.

It is often as powerful as it is elegantly shot. Unfortunately, Szabo tends to tell this rather predictable tale in an obvious yet uneven way.

Branagh's attempt to meld Shakespeare's densely verbal early comedy with Broadway show tunes fails, thanks to stunt casting, poor singing and dancing, and the incompatibility of the two art forms.

In monotonous narration, Rosette rants that the vendors' right to free speech should allow them to obstruct sidewalks, but the portrait of his subculture is so vaguely rendered, it will likely put audiences to sleep rather than change minds.

Unfortunately, you really only hear about prostitution from the side of the pimp.

Her star billing notwithstanding, Jolie has perhaps the ninth-largest part in the movie (behind seven humans and a dog), playing Cage's ex-girlfriend.

Suffers from terminal hoof-in-mouth disease.

A bad film with some oddly charming moments.

Watching Thirteen is like spending an hour and a half with a poker-faced teen who's obviously unhappy but refuses to talk about what's wrong.

Strident, unrepentantly one-sided but often entertaining.

Intermittently funny, often vulgar.

The most enjoyable western comedy since "Blazing Saddles."

It's not much fun to watch people go to raves. And it's even less fun to listen to people talk about how much fun it is to go to raves.