An interesting plot element or two and a stylish visual approach can't save James Foley's The Corruptor from coming across as a run-of-the-mill cop movie.

Frequently funny and occasionally hilarious.

No amount of youthful charisma can alter the fact that, in the light of "Dangerous Liaisons", Cruel Intentions is a feeble and dissatisfying shadow.

It's a superior thriller made with the guts and gusto that too many recycled entries into the genre fail to exhibit.

A tepid affair, distinguished by bland character development, uninspired and insipid dialogue, and a nonexistent plot.

Would probably have been more enjoyable if Berkowitz was less irritating. As a character, his only redeeming quality is his self-deprecating humor.

This is a film to be enjoyed on a psychological level for its keen understanding of the contradictory impulses that drive sexual and social intercourse.

The result, while not entirely devoid of entertainment value, doesn't work as a whole.

Two agonizing hours of lifeless, mind-numbing hogwash.

It fails to sustain its comic momentum or high energy level. The first half is fresh and funny, but it doesn't last.

With its lack of car chases, fist fights, and over-the-top melodrama, the film has to rely on solid acting, an intelligent script, and capable directing.

Like the candy from which it gets its name, Jawbreaker is fun at the start, but can turn into a chore to complete.

As a date movie or for a solo night out, Blast from the Past offers more than standard romantic comedy fare.

It's not a great film, but it succeeds in being both tender and cathartic.

The movie is pretty much what you might expect from a big-screen adaptation of a once-popular '60s TV series: good-natured, appealing, and sophomoric.

The result is sometimes enchanting, but, more often than not, it's frustrating, because the disparate elements of the plot never quite gel.

While there's quite a bit more graphic bloodshed and brutality here than in any of the late screen icon's vehicles, Payback is a worthy '90s successor to his kind of movie.

Despite being largely uninspired, the dialogue is peppered with enough profanity and salacious comments to keep the undiscriminating interested.

Just because it's not boring, that doesn't mean it's worth plunking down the price of admission.

The movie is consistently well-acted and features a gallery of characters so affable that it's difficult to actively dislike any of them, or, for that matter, the film as a whole.

Offers solid entertainment, it's too uneven to be considered memorable.

95 minutes of unrelieved tedium.

Unfortunately, Voight is not in every scene, and, when he's absent, Varsity Blues has a tendency to flounder, descending into the realm of formulaic sports movie melodrama.

The director is a poet of images.

Affliction is for anyone willing to take the journey into the heart and soul of a troubled man on the edge.

It is a triumph, and one of 1998's few "don't miss" motion pictures.

One could easily argue that, like many Ed Wood-type bad movies, The Faculty might be headed for the cult classic shelf in the video store. Unfortunately, it's not campy enough, and, worse, it seems to think it's being hip when it's just being dumb.

A courtroom drama which is sufficiently different and thought-provoking that I can recommend it with a clear conscience.