A joyous first feature by director Kwyn Bader, is a charmer.

But the jury is still out on Romano's future in movies. Hackman blows him off the screen.

An intermittently pleasing children's film.

Besides the fact that the film is flabby (way too much time is spent on history), its efforts to tie subliminal messaging to a vast array of political, media and pop cultural events turn the proceedings a little hazy (or a lot hazy, depending on your worldview).

An odd duck, a Southern melodrama that aspires to be a sensitive coming-of-age story, with some humor mixed in. Sometimes it doesn’t soar the way it should, though it remains engaging most of the way.

Fortunately, Beau Garrett brightens things up with her performance as the neurotic Brenda.

By and large a misguided and lame affair. Except for gratuitous gunplay so extreme it actually jolts you awake, it's a major snore. [28 Aug 1993, p.F1]

This poor excuse for a thriller turns, with a great crunching of gears, into a mess of a buddy comedy. Either way, it misfires.

It's not bad. It's cute.

On Deadly Ground is in every way the equal of Seagal's Under Siege, his first mainstream hit from 1992, and in terms of scale it's even bigger. Everything blows up. Everybody blows up. [19 Feb 1994, p.E1]

Though Zack Snyder is known as an action director, he is a genuine artist and one of the most exciting and promising filmmakers to emerge in the past 10 years. His new movie, Sucker Punch - let's just say it - is a failure, but there's so much talent on that screen that the movie can't be dismissed as a waste of time.

Dragons may have seemed less out of place three decades ago, but it would have been a bad movie then as well. It's filled with clumsy transitions and erratic performances, and tied together by an awkward framing device.

Delivers all the pain, melodrama and redemption that fans of the genre demand.

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

It presents a compelling situation, genuinely touching moments and pockets of strong acting ... and dialogue that has people in the audience turning to each other and laughing because it’s so absurd.

Let It Ride has atmosphere, plus a good setting, appealing actors - and a bad script. [19 Aug 1989]

North is director Rob Reiner's first flat-out failure, a sincerely wrought, energetically made picture that all the same crashes on takeoff. It's strange and oddly distasteful, at its best managing to be bad in some original and unexpected ways.

RV is a horrible movie about horrible people, and just because they call it a comedy doesn't mean we have to play along.

The bottom line here is that Cyrus is ghastly in The Last Song, bad not just in one or two ways, but in all kinds of ways.

Fans of previous incarnations are advised to check their nostalgia at the door, while the uninitiated may simply check their brains.

The truly shocking thing about the new version is that it's not bloody awful.

Neither epochal nor epic in its ludicrousness. It's just run-of-the-mill trash.

Feels so moldy and out of date.

It would help if the plot were more than just an outline with a few convenient turns.

Dispiriting mess. The movie is bad in a boring way: tepidly paced, disjointed and lacking any emotional hook.

The last 15 minutes finally get it together for what passes as a movie experience with a considerable "gotcha!" quotient.

Despite moments of unintentional humor, “The Ritual” has an appealing gravity about it, which probably derives from its adherence to the historical record.

Mindhunters is as effective as a movie can be and yet still be 100 percent forgettable.