Mesmerizing documentary.

Favoring precision filmmaking over cheap thrills, with a vibe more Alfred Hitchcock than Freddy Krueger, Red Eye establishes two intelligent characters and lets audiences sit back and enjoy an entertaining battle of brains and wills.

It's an excellent movie for kids, because it is about how amazing children can be.

Some films are harder to watch than others - not because they're bad, which makes for a different sort of painful viewing, but because they touch on areas of such profound moral discomfort that the mere act of watching makes us feel complicit. We feel like gutless witnesses to a crime. And that's what makes Compliance such a hard thing to stomach.

Sexy, surprising romance.

Pike’s Colvin is brave, but she’s not tough, and, scene by scene, she reveals more and gives more than she probably means to.

The Rodriguez segment is terrific; the Tarantino one long-winded and juvenile.

For the most part, good food and good cheer are the order of the day here, and the chatty, old-school Ziggy serves as a reliable — and touching — tour guide.

It's hard to sell people on a movie about grief, but A Single Man deserves recognition for being about something real that usually goes unexplored: The grief from which there really can be no return.

A nice gift for science fiction fans.

Because Gyllenhaal is a more complicated actor than Swayze, and more comically adept, the new “Road House” has more humor and more attention to the peculiarities of the central character.

About American anti-Semitism, but it's not a typical genteel "cause" movie.

This is a small -- if rough -- gem of a film.

A good, strong movie, but never threatens to be great. One salivates at the adventurous directions the film could have explored.

Extremely amusing.

An unusual look at love and how it can unexpectedly develop. Those for whom the concept of an arranged marriage is foreign will get a little history lesson on the immigrant experience watching this sweetly engrossing film.

One of those quirky little movies that you marvel ever got made.

By the time it ends, Mendes has built within the audience an intense desire to see the men’s message successfully delivered, and like a true dramatist, Mendes milks it for every drop of tension. He does not blow his big finish.

Pretentious but absorbing.

I might be tempted to vote DiCaprio best actor — or at least to propose a new category be inaugurated, the acting equivalent of the Purple Heart.

A film one can admire, but it is not "likable," per se, nor does its director wish it to be.

A funny and twisted movie from beginning to end, closing with an emotional payoff.

1 Angry Black Man is a more thoughtful and intellectual exercise than its prosaic and incendiary title at first suggests.

Director Hiner Saleem has created a magical movie that veers, even within scenes, from love story to tragedy to comic relief.

Kilmer dons 12 disguises in all, polishes them with impeccable accents and pliable postures and gives a performance that's far and away the best aspect of the diverting The Saint.

Has a lot going for it -- but too much going against it to be a clear-cut winner.

Varda's subject matter is surprisingly rich, but it's her own energetic, curious nature that gives the film its snap.

Can be enjoyed if you don't mind a little manipulation.