Bloody good.

It's almost a great movie. For half of its running time, Anderson maintains a distinct and arresting tone of vague absurdity, and then he loses control and the film begins to dip into silliness. Individual scenes become labored. Yet even at its worst, The Life Aquatic is always interesting -- there's really nothing else like it.

Compelling.

But there's just enough comforting familiarity mixed with refreshing new characters to hold the casserole of a plot together.

Beautiful but hollow.

Tricks with the camera sully an otherwise informative documentary.

Feels like a personal vendetta.

For filmgoers who like dramas that are spare yet evocative, that focus on the subtleties of relationships, and that feature foreign settings completely off the beaten path, Deserted Station will be a masterpiece.

A 98-minute elucidation of a point that's accepted within three minutes.

Neither funny nor outrageous nor horrifying nor conventionally affecting.

Whenever Roberts is onscreen, Closer freezes and starts to atrophy. And when she's off, tender shoots of life begin to sprout.

A gorgeously shot, ambitious epic.

Hauntingly tells a story older than the Odyssey and as timely as today's body count from Iraq.

It has verve, color and energy, but there's something fundamentally bogus about it.

A larger-than-life resonance.

Lumpy.

Filled with overly processed situations it tries to sell with manic energy, "Kranks" is canned, hammy and rolling as fast as it can.

Stone tries to make us like Alexander because he's good, when he should have made us want to watch Alexander because he's amazing.

Hilarious.

Superb.

It has no ambition, little sense and false sentiment, but it does have velocity, high spirits and scale.

Intoxicating and flawed.

Delightful.

Intermittently funny.

Seizes on a primal fear and flogs it for two hours.

Were there an award for most bizarre and dispiriting comedy-horror hybrid featuring killer dolls, the latest installment in the "Child's Play" series would have it locked up.

It's strung together, with cliches instead of puka shells.

A great role becomes an unenviable chore, in which a superb comic actress finds herself trying to sell a series of unfunny comic situations by mugging and pushing with all her might. It's an unflattering spectacle for all concerned.