After devising a sturdy frame for Neeson’s special brand of sorrowful mayhem, the filmmakers expertly fill in Run All Night with a series of charged action scenes, including a rare one in which Neeson chases after a cop car, instead of the other way around.

The best part about the movie is the way it shifts focus, starting as an observation of the animal and then subtly morphing to the point of view of Nénette, who passively experiences a jumble of voices that start to run together.

It’s the actors’ emotional intelligence, though, that creates the movie’s true onscreen magic. This is like an Ingmar Bergman scenario directed by Sam Raimi. However you slice it, Together is a great love story. The ghastliness of it all is the chef’s kiss.

Barely 20 years old at the time of filming, Pugh has a surface poise and an inner turbulence, a capacity to command the screen with the spectacle of her watching and thinking. The last time something like Pugh happened, she was called Kate Winslet, and the movie was “Heavenly Creatures.”

For all the eyepopping splendor and in-your-face reality, this film leaves the viewer unsatisfied and feeling a little cheated out of compelling drama.

It’s giving away nothing to say that the answers here are a mix of good news and bad news.

An inventive, black comedy.

A big-hearted celebration of the we're-all-in-this- together American way.

It's as if he has been trying to express something, or to make his own particular kind of good movie, for 10 whole years. Now he has.

A powerful document of cruelty and sadism.

Eragon may not be a big Oscar contender, but in a movie season filled with blood diamonds, fascist soldiers and Idi Amin, it provides a much-needed afternoon of PG-rated family-friendly adventure.

Ross doesn’t gloss over the challenges facing the rural black county, but he finds a strong spirit there, even as the storm clouds hover.

No one else makes movies like this Spanish director.

Clever and enjoyable.

Takes its title from an early Artforum article that described the sleek aesthetic of the then-new Southern California art.

While Wilde captures its subject's singular charm, it ultimately doesn't do justice to his complexity.

The result is a warm and extremely thoughtful journey, with a deliberately bare-bones narrative.

A powerful and disturbing political drama.

The story is on the weak side, and many of the jokes are just a bit flat. And yet there are enough cute bits and special-effects surprises that it will probably be worth people's while, especially if they intended to see the movie in the first place. [22 Nov 1991, p.C1]

The real casting disaster is Mulroney. His blandness in the role makes it impossible to believe two beautiful women would fight over him.

A movie for science fiction fans who wish every minute of “Star Wars” was the cantina scene.

So much love went into Hustle & Flow that it almost glows with it.

Demonstrates, if nothing else, that there's a genuine person -- chastened by mistakes and more compassionate, perhaps, for all she's suffered -- beneath the war paint and the stardust.

Sly and very savvy.

It’s a lovely film that’s poetic, erotic and bittersweet.

An engaging, absorbing portrait of a moment in time when the Beatles were at their zenith.

Like Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s stellar “The Lego Movie,” the filmmakers work with the confidence that if a joke fails, the one that follows a few seconds later will redeem the scene.

Co-directed by Emily Kassie, “Sugarcane” – which won a directing prize at the Sundance Film Festival in January and won the Golden Gate documentary award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in April – contains stunning natural beauty and painful revelations.