Like "Once," this film is a tender little piece of heartbreak.

With an emotional depth roughly equivalent to that of his lacrosse stick...

With great power comes the responsibility to make a decent movie, but the mysterious force running through Chronicle is the power to supersuck.

Completely lacking in imagination and purpose, this vanity project might suffice as a home movie, but it's hardly worth the expense and bother of seeing it in a theater.

Return comes briefly to life when John Slattery of "Mad Men'' turns up as an acerbic yet sympathetic reclusive drunk whom Kelli meets during court-mandated rehab. But it's not enough for a film that limps along to a pretty much preordained climax.

A sumptuous masterpiece by one of the greatest moviemakers of all time.

Yunus would seem to be a prime candidate for a movie about his work. Unfortunately, director Holly Mosher's by-the-numbers documentary Bonsai People isn't the answer.

How cheap-looking is the modern-day romantic tragedy Private Romeo? Take a couple of friends to see it, and the amount you spend may exceed the amount the filmmakers did.

With cheesy-looking effects including a ride on the backs of giant bees and dubious literary references, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island comes dangerously close to giving books, never mind 3-D, a bad name.

Chico and Rita beguiles first and foremost as a bebop romance that evokes a bygone era as well as, or maybe even better than, "The Artist."

Safe House may strike you as a brilliant movie, provided you've seen fewer than, say, 10 spy thrillers.

These two stars bring believable chemistry and emotion to a film that might otherwise wilt under the weight of so much melodrama.

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth doesn't offer easy conclusions.

Sexploitation and art blend uneasily in Crazy Horse.

There's little sense of the Carol Channing beneath the overdone makeup - if there is one.

The Innkeepers is no masterpiece, but you may well leave with your nerves expertly jangled.

Banal at the beginning and preposterous at the close, the British horror film Kill List jumbles together wildly incongruous ingredients to create a dramatic mush.

Would the Mayans have predicted the end of the world in 2012 if they'd known it would inspire not only "The Tree of Life'' and "Melancholia'' but an endless supply of more dreary depictions of end-times like this one?

An interesting debut for director Pesce, although it isn't worth running out to see. Wait for it to hit the small screen.

This jagged blob of a movie features a solo dance in the 1930s scored to the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant," several scenes of a rich Manhattan woman chatting with the ghost of Wallis Simpson and a Sotheby's auction that draws a crowd reaction of the kind associated with "Family Feud." Yet I found the movie fascinating. Except for the boring bits.

It's an exciting, charming and often quite funny family film.

Erstwhile boy wizard Daniel Radcliffe works no magic as a grieving lawyer in The Woman in Black, a creaky haunted-house story that's strong on creepy atmosphere but woefully deficient in the scare department.

After Fall, Winter would play better minus at least half an hour of flab.

France's Declaration of War has it all: comedy, romance, fantasy, musical interludes and a child with a brain tumor. Wait - what?

What follows is a jumble of cop- and heist-movie clichés, dotted with appearances by actors you liked in something else.

Forsaken in a cruel wilderness, a man looks to God and pleads for help. Receiving no answer, he says, "F- -k, I'll do it myself."

As North Korea undergoes a highly publicized change of leadership, The Front Line proves timely. In fact, one of the movie's army commanders looks like the north's new baby dictator, Kim Jong-un.

It's unfortunate that director Whitney Sudler-Smith seems to have spent more time on his own hair than his interview prep.