Here, Jews are not victims of genocide, but victors in the organized resistance against it.

Enormously satisfying.

There's probably not much of an audience for Elmo in Grouchland beyond the toddler crowd.

If Blow Dry isn't a rousing triumph on the order "of The Full Monty" and "Brassed Off," Rickman, Richardson and Nighy make sure it's a winning film.

Simplistic and jingoistic. But it's also explosively fun.

I also like that when Our Hero starts swinging from skyscrapers, he's not just emulating Tarzan, but is working out the Newtonian physics of action and reaction.

It is at once inspiring and troubling.

Brosnan is good, and he and Dyrholm erase any and all signs of contrivance in the plot, the script.

A sly, richly modulated, emotionally engaging, and brutally honest film.

With rich, detailed, cinematic animation and terrific sound effects, WALLE pulls this unlikely love story off.

The relationship between the young American and the old Frenchman is as rich as one of Perrier's sauces: the pupil and the teacher, the son and the father, the keen protégé and the stubborn classicist.

It's a period piece full of colorful characters, natty costumes, jaunty music.

This sweet, yet unsentimental film is about growing up, losing innocence, and longing for a place, and people, to call home.

A fascinating, albeit self-congratulatory, account of how Disney's fabled animation department was reenergized and reimagined between 1984 and 1994.

A comedy as likable as its stars.

Refreshingly subversive.

The more Pacino overplays, the more Cusack underplays, which makes for a fascinating contrast in acting styles. True, Cusack's dialect is more "Louie, Louie" than Louisiana, but he projects such moral spotlessness that none of the film's cynicism can soil him. That's acting. [16 Feb 1996, p.03]

Sneakily funny and hopelessly romantic, Reality Bites speaks with the distinctive, ironic voice that marks it as The Graduate of Generation X. [18 Feb 1994, p.03]

The best performances are those of Portman and the resourceful Peter Sarsgaard (Shattered Glass) as Mark.

I mean no disrespect to Rosenthal when I say I laughed louder during the movie than during any episode of his hit TV show.

This is one of the smarter, more honest scripts to be filmed in quite some time. And Jenna Fischer, star of "The Office," gives one of the smarter, more honest - and vulnerable, and tough - performances by an actress on the big screen in an even longer stretch.

It's a soaring, crashing, blazing affair with pyrotechnic performances by real-life spouses Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez as Lavoe and his wife, Puchi. Like a plane disaster, it holds you in thrall of ¡ay, Dios mio! drama.

The result, if occasionally forced, is also irresistible.

Delicious confection about the resilient Czech character, tastes like a bittersweet chocolate souffle, it's much more substantial than dessert.

Do you need to have seen A Chorus Line to understand or enjoy Every Little Step? I think not. This companion piece to one of America's most beloved musicals is about human longings and shortfalls.

A high-energy chase, but in this spirited action comedy Yaguchi still finds time to allow the romance between lovers on the run to blossom at its own pace.

Offers a diverting tale of erstwhile indie filmmaking and the power of porn to generate change - both at the box office and in the bedroom.

Another Earth has heft - emotionally, intellectually.