This is the most realistic film about teaching that you're ever likely to see.

Underscores that choices in love are rarely clean and easy, and more often than not, are poignantly funny.

A spiritual successor to "The Pursuit of Happyness," but darker and more oblique.

The comedy, to the extent there is any, consists mainly of Carrey's verbal asides and strained reactions to people. The script gives him very little to work with.

The movie has the simplicity and confidence of a Johnny Cash song.

A fine new rock documentary.

Maybe this mixed-up and weird, awful but awfully likable movie is what Dirty Harry had coming to him, after all.

If Soderbergh's ambition was to make us feel just how dull it would be to a woods-dwelling communist guerrilla, he succeeded.

Overall, it's a nice melding of sci-fi and a crime story.

How can this movie not be fun?

There seems to be something about the story itself that's better suited to the stage than the screen.

Like a Christmas present you didn't know you wanted but are delighted to receive.

A film made with high aspirations and more than the usual commitment but one that, after an arresting beginning, changes into a passive rumination.

A film that might have seemed faintly academic six months ago becomes an anxious expression of its historical moment.

Artful, beautiful in parts and unbelievably brutal in others, and no less honest for its stagecraft.

A satisfying combination of great songs and strong dramatic performances.

A dreary little thriller that irritates more than it thrills.

Assuming you can appreciate the high level of gore and assorted sadistic weirdness, the action is satisfying.

Morgan finds the right elements of action and character through which to make history leap off the page.

It's compassionate but unblinking.

This is a movie of excesses that doesn't know when to settle down. It aims to be a slapstick comedy, a romantic comedy and a plain old romance but falls short of each goal.

With Milk, a great San Francisco story becomes a great American story.

The fight scenes are lackluster and the plot is needlessly complicated. If you're making an action film that centers on fast cars and fast women, it's usually best to keep the rest of the story simple.

Twilight has a few gory plot turns - mostly offscreen - and one near-sex scene that may offend a few Amish people, but the rest is maybe 33 percent less wholesome than "High School Musical." It's almost certainly less risque than what you were watching when you were 14. (Cue the soundtrack to "Risky Business.")

A riveting works of humanism.

It's doubtful that audiences go to animated features to hear movie stars talk. They go because a film sounds like fun and something their kids and maybe they themselves might enjoy. Bolt is all that and more.

A respectable and fairly decent movie.

Riveting.