The film is dreadfully slow without much in the way of rewards.

Most of the bits and performances have a hard time making the transition from stage to screen.

Hoodwinked is a computer-animated, "Shrek"-style satire of "Little Red Riding Hood" that offers a few laughs but overall is pretty tired.

On its own terms, the film is overlong, repetitive and lacks impact. Even if this were the first gorilla-in-love movie ever made, audiences would come away vaguely dissatisfied, suspecting there was an intriguing idea buried somewhere in here, but it didn't quite come off.

Carries a lot of emotional power.

Too labored and cliched to incite passion in an audience.

Has an old-fashioned feel, as if it had been made in the period of its setting. I mean this as a compliment.

A movie of intelligence and power, of beauty, universality and largeness of spirit.

The World's Fastest Indian might be the world's worst title for a charming, slice-of-life biopic.

It's hard to sit all the way through Aeon Flux while fully awake.

Transamerica provides the frame and the occasion for one of the year's best performances, Felicity Huffman's as a woman trapped in a man's body who's passing for female while awaiting a sex-change operation.

Succeeds as both education and amusement.

Well made, but it's a talkfest that wears its stage origins on its sleeve.

Tender but unsparing, heartfelt and unapologetic.

Gripping.

The film is so pitch perfect and realistic, it seems you are there with these people, watching their lives unfold before you as it happens.

The casting, at least, is magical. Plowright shows both her character's strength and her heartbreaking vulnerability, sometimes at once.

What a waste.

May be a good tactical move for the artist's career, but it's a bad movie.

A thoroughly enjoyable three-or four-gimmick comedy.

Columbus' schizoid approach works more often than not.

A turkey.

There is little debauchery to be had in Laurence Dunmore's adaptation of The Libertine. In fact, hedonism has never looked so bleak.

It's hard to get swept away when you're struggling to figure out who's doing what to whom and why.

An uplifting documentary.

Offers a brew of wondrous chimera combined with the wonders of human nature.

A passionate, chronicle of an extraordinary artist, and a love story that can't be beat.

Known for his visual images, Jordan outdoes himself in "Breakfast,'' a feast for the eyes.