The film is a particular disappointment considering its pedigree.

The beauty of Duck Season is its insistence that profound human experiences can arrive slowly, in incremental packages, scattered over the course of an average Sunday.

Unwatchable.

A gripping story of one teen's rebellion against his peers' sadistic abuse.

A quirky little comedy about one day in the life of a New York playwright on the brink of either greatness or failure.

This affecting documentary focuses on their 2004 production, a play whose themes of forgiveness and redemption certainly ought to have some resonance for the inmates.

Another urban action thriller that's better than some, worse than most and so forgettable that it's possible to forget it while watching it?

The movie has a sweetness and innocence that makes it near perfect entertainment for its target audience.

A return to rowdy form for Chappelle.

A film to be enjoyed only by science-fiction movie completists and middle school boys with extreme cases of attention deficit disorder.

It takes an extraordinary film on the order of Joyeux Noel to make it all suddenly vital, immediate and human.

It's a well-meaning but ultimately feeble and misguided attempt to say something profound about the aftereffects of the 2001 attacks on New York.

It grabs you from a symbolic opening scene of gang members rolling the dice -- the odds, it soon becomes clear, are stacked against them getting lucky -- and never lets go.

It's a movie that scrounges so desperately for laughs, it features both a flatulent moose and a flatulent train.

A disappointing sequel to the far funnier "Diary of a Mad Black Woman."

It's a pumped-up, intricate and fast-moving yarn that never flags and continues to play out in unexpected ways as it unravels.

While the film raises simple but deeply puzzling questions about memory and identity, the hit-or-miss search for answers by the subject and assorted experts, family and friends is finally unsatisfying.

It's an intriguing portrait, but it makes no pretense at objectivity, erring on the side of hero worship.

This documentary about men and women performing brutal work tasks for next to no money is full of arresting and eloquent images. It has little dialogue, and little is needed.

A lame pastiche of Hollywood romances.

The movie is overly long and much too intense for small children, yet it's filled with dialogue and plot turns that are too juvenile to thrill adult audiences.

At the finish, the filmmakers give us at least three different endings, probably because they have no idea what Freedomland is saying, probably because it's not saying much of anything. But a film with this many virtues can't be written off as just another average entry.

A spectacular failure, despite further evidence of the director's keen eye and bold cinematic ideas.

A wildly entertaining fantasy thriller that propels Russian cinema into the 21st century.

The film holds us rapt not through narrative suspense but through the eerie and demanding spectacle of profound moral courage, of a powerless good person in collision with absolute evil.

This flawed drama about a self-destructive young actress and her reclusive novelist father has its rewards, mainly in some good performances.

Douglas does his best acting while watching and reacting to what he sees on screen. If this ends up being his cinematic swan song, it will not have been a bad way to go.

A brilliant and irresistible counterfactual overview of American history.