The offbeat drama The Seagull's Laughter is the kind of movie I appreciate because it never announces where it's headed.

Misbegotten mess.

A mildly pleasing romantic comedy, a trifle held together by Drew Barrymore's charm and a decent high-concept gimmick.

This is a science fiction film, but like all excellent movies in the genre, the focus never strays from the human heart.

Charmingly offbeat in the vein of early Woody Allen.

A heartbreaking, powerful drama.

Delivers laughs most of the way through.

To make a movie about that team and those games requires more than an ability to depict personal dramas or re-enact game highlights. It requires the re- creation of a world and a mind-set, and Miracle accomplishes both brilliantly.

A warmhearted and surprisingly ambitious sequel.

What started out with the feel of a tight little kids' thriller turns into a Nickelodeon afternoon movie.

A tense, expertly acted Russian film clouded by its intentional ambiguity.

An ambitious and exciting piece of work, a movie about sex and movies made by a filmmaker who understands the power of each to set off fantasy, create addiction, incite danger and transform the spirit.

Good storytelling.

The least appealing of the trilogy.

A dull film with unsympathetic characters brought together by a gimmicky premise that's handled with no imagination and a pristine fraudulence of emotion. Aside from that, it's great.

This tale of tortured love between a Mormon missionary and a West Hollywood tomcat renders its gay and religious characters so stereotypical that neither lifestyle appears attractive.

A dreadful exercise, with a script full of contradictions and empty gestures and a leading lady who's such a novice it hurts to watch her.

A street-dance film that's lively and silly and about as "street" as a Britney Spears video.

[Duhmel] brings surprising nuance to an ostensibly shallow character, a guy who's not really bad, just caught up in his own celebrity.

Real acting replaces re-enacting, and amazing cinematography pits the limits of human will against the unruliness of nature.

In its own ridiculous way, The Butterfly Effect is an entertaining movie, despite mediocre acting, lackluster direction and a story that's sometimes frustrating. It has the integrity of camp, maintaining an odd earnestness in the face of its own absurdity.

It seems like a bizarre move for Disney, releasing a film that combines elements of "Blue's Clues" and "The Island of Dr. Moreau."

It's only January, but already we have a strong candidate for the most thunderingly stupid movie of the year.

This wise and warm man, who died in 2002, is captured in all his glory by the remarkable documentary.

Much of The Tracker, a blunt morality tale about Australian racism, is heavy going.

Its story is paint-by- numbers...But it's funny, and funny covers a lot of sins.

Gorgeous animated film.

probably less painful than actual childbirth, but it's still a very long 86 minutes.