The picture's strength is comedy -- but the love and crime stories too often drag, falter or just plain frustrate.

Corky Romano is merely grating. Until he finds a better director than Rob Pritts, Kattan's best bet is to stick with "SNL" impresario Lorne Michaels.

If you've never seen any anime, set your sights on fun and leave your hard nose for drama and fine dialogue at home.

Lacks the poetic and romantic resonance of "Crouching Tiger," but it's got kicks aplenty -- of both the physical and the sensational kind -- and it lands them again and again.

It's surreal, erotic, creepy, frustrating, absorbing, transporting and torturous in the way only a Lynch film can be.

Intelligent teens will hate this film, and adults will just be embarrassed.

The picture is pinched and predictable. Even with the immensely talented Steve Zahn, an actor who's known to steal scenes and, sometimes, save pictures, the movie is a yawn.

It's a little depressing to see such a thrilling talent deployed in such an ordinary and sordid movie. Training Day isn't awful, but it's absolutely nothing special.

Tasty, but, finally, a little unfulfilling.

A vibrant, multicharacter film that entertains, disorients and enlightens.

Maybe if the story weren't so ludicrous we'd care. Or maybe if the film just went overboard with its ludicrousness, we'd be entertained, but Don't Say a Word is merely boring.

Works like a funnier "Austin Powers" -- you laugh just enough to want to see the whole thing again.

The mix of psychic thriller and childhood memory movies is smooth, maybe too smooth. Neither becomes truly gripping, despite fine acting by Hopkins, Yelchin and Boorem.

Exciting, gory, funny and, like much of anime, a bit cheesy.

It's almost numbingly sad, but you won't regret watching -- and you'll surely never forget it.

Takes a fabulous idea and overplays it, making an average picture out of some truly extraordinary material.

Pleasant and light and builds nicely within its own self-circumscribed intent.

Blends its seemingly disparate elements into a coherent film that's entertaining, funny, sad and even a bit uplifting and inspirational.

An endearing romantic comedy that pokes fun at the ridiculous things people do for love.

Appallingly flat.

Somewhere along the way, Stephen Herek's Rock Star decided to become a dippy, cliche-ridden drama and, worse, an odd indictment of metal music. Joy.

An achievement of accomplished filmmaking and superb acting, L.I.E. puts you in the tough spot of unraveling how you feel about what you've viewed.

Balancing homage with creativity, the picture is tight, stylishly filmed, clever and, importantly, scary.

It's not confusing, it's just slow. Very slow. Glacial.

All guts, no glory and, worse, bad story.

The best-looking, best-scripted and funniest of Smith's pictures, it's also Smith's sharpest.

Apparently, you can lead a Prinze to a movie, but you can't make him act.

This is a semi-mean-spirited movie; had it remained that way, it could have redeemed itself.