Despite some solid acting, the film is lacking in surprises. For all the suffering that these characters endure, there's very little payoff.

Outstanding in support roles are Alison Lohman, playing a friend of Jerry's, and John Carroll Lynch, playing a neighbor who befriends Jerry.

A quirky but surprisingly lighthearted dark comedy.

Worth the effort.

An enticingly risque saga of the 16th century monarch.

Follows a predictable format.

A gentle comedy, offbeat but never cute, never lewd and never going for shortcut laughs that might diminish character.

Sleuth"is that rare film that would have been better longer. You're not through looking at Caine and Law when the final credits roll.

A complex story.

Things are a little off. The style is gritty 1970s-style crime thriller, but the morals are straight out of 2007, and the movie is set in 1988.

Neatly, and often humorously, summarizes a very unhealthy situation.

An ambitious attempt at cinematic poetry, and how much they have succeeded depends on how well you can sort out its surrealistic meanings.

There's little illumination.

When you finally stop laughing, there is something to think about.

It works well as a film and a lesson about, as one open-minded preacher puts it, what the Bible "reads" about what it supposedly "says" about homosexuality.

It's funny in spots if you can tune out the Farrellys' ultra-crass jokes - along with any memory of the first movie.

Has a slow build and a strong payoff, but George Clooney is the element that holds it together.

No one emerges unpunished.

A mostly entertaining movie with built-in appeal to young audiences. The good news for parents is that it won't put them to sleep.

Never penetrates Cobain's circumstances or character.

A frustrating movie, a work of immaturity from a director who should be past the empty gestures and self-protective distance of his early work.

Trade is a total misfire, a strange attempt at making a buddy movie featuring a morose Kevin Kline and a 17-year-old Mexican boy looking for his kidnapped sister.

The multiple-story-line family drama is too cliche-ridden to be considered a great movie. But it's still a very good one, filled with excellent performances, entertaining writing and a final few scenes that are quite moving - even if you can see most of them coming at the end of the first act.

The two best things about this logic-challenged, predictable and overlong (110 minutes!) film are The Rock's performance - surely he's one of the more likable people in the movies, and here he handles physical sight gags with aplomb; and the parallel disciplines of football and ballet, which provide a way for father and daughter to understand each other.

The opening is spectacular, but the rest is fairly routine.

Stylized and visually arresting, with intense sex scenes that earned the film an NC-17 rating, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution is an immersion into another time, place and mentality.

This documentary has no bells and whistles; Bill Haney, the director and co-writer (with Peter Rhodes), sticks to the facts.

The ending is predictable to anybody who's followed the trajectory of outsourcing. Outsourced humanizes those affected by it - even if the story sounds familiar.