About as frightening as Walt Disney's Haunted Mansion.

With the flat characters and lifeless performances, it's a wonder that anyone in the audience can stay awake all the way through this dull and dreary production.

Gives life and meaning to an event that is little more than a footnote in history books (if that).

Ana is a vivid, vibrant individual and the movie's focus upon her makes it successful and accessible.

It is possible, however improbable, that a "bad" movie can still be highly enjoyable. Formula 51 is such a film.

Takes things too far by leaving about 75% of its questions unanswered. This isn't an artistic choice; it's screenwriting sloppiness, and it results in a profoundly dissatisfying experience.

A compelling motion picture that illustrates an American tragedy and shows the transformation of a decent family man into someone whose struggles with addiction and association with the wrong man bring him to an untimely end, with no hope of retribution.

What Brown Sugar lacks in originality, it makes up for in charm.

As ghost stories go, this one is handled with great subtlety and delicacy.

At times darkly funny and at other times depressingly tragic. It's safe to say there aren't any movies out there quite like this one.

Imperfect as it may be, Bowling for Columbine is riveting stuff.

This balls-to-the-walls action/adventure makes the average James Bond film look like something by Eric Rohmer. It’s high rent Steven Segal - fights, explosions, and more fights, but with a flair.

Not a typical Disney family film -- thank god. Charming and thought-provoking, this is the kind of movie with the sweetness necessary to appeal to younger (although not too young) viewers and the philosophical richness to draw in veteran movie-goers.

A bad movie. No amount of perfume sprayed on talk show audiences by Madonna and her husband can eliminate the stench of failure emanating from this motion picture.

It's not edgy or groundbreaking, but it tells the story it sets out to tell. For what it is, Kosminsky's picture is polished and effective. If only the movie had taken more risks or possessed a keener edge...

Quirky and stylish, but not in a manner that comes across as overly artsy or pretentious.

Heaven's tone is all wrong. The movie tries to be ethereal, but ends up seeming goofy.

The result is a grim, startling motion picture.

Red Dragon is done in a painfully mechanical, by-the-book manner. Scenes are assembled to move the plot from point A to point B. There's no atmosphere. No tension. Flat performances. All of these problems are rightfully laid at the feet of the man in charge.

You know you're in trouble when 50% of the running length is devoted to plot exposition, and the movie still doesn't make any sense.

Die-hard fans of Witherspoon and the romantic comedy genre will probably find enough to like in this film to make it worth a trip to the theater. Everyone else would be best served by spending their hard-earned money on something else.

An insult to anyone who has tragically and unexpectedly lost a loved-one in a similar manner.

Riveting from beginning to end, featuring stellar performances, amazing cinematography, and a story without a trace of fat, the film does everything an epic is supposed to do - and more.

A tighter version of the same story might have captured and held my interest, but this one had the proceedings wandering like the riderless camels in the desert.

Has enough genuine laughs to eliminate the potential twitters and snickers, and it treats Edward and Lee as people. We end up caring about what happens to these two individuals, even as we smile and laugh at their antics.

This grim, joyless motion picture is anything but fun. It’s a chore to sit through, with all the blazing, noisy pyrotechnics proving unable to lighten the mood.

One of the most uplifting and delightful films to have come along this year.

Overall, while Spirited Away may not be as complex and imaginative as "Princess Mononoke" in some areas, it is as beautifully rendered and no less sophisticated in its outlook. Miyazaki has provided another triumph, and, in the midst of the quality fall-off of Disney’s in-house animated projects, a reason for animation-lovers to rejoice.