After a slow start, it moves.

Funny throughout, but with a handful of really hilarious moments.

Celebrates the craft of acting both in its story and in fine performances.

Offers a lively but jumbled insider's view of a world of great talent and greater risk.

Sly and insightful fable.

If you enjoy gross humor -- elevated by an occasional witty line -- and looking at babes, and don't mind a little blood and gore, do I have a date movie for you.

Amateur in the true sense of the word -- plainly, proudly homemade.

Not surprisingly, only Samuel L. Jackson seems fully to understand that he's in a bad movie, and he makes a virtue of it, using it as an excuse to hang loose, overact and ride the scenes for wherever they might go.

Swayze's presence crosses the line from curious to bizarre and adds a heavy layer of cheese to Havana Nights.

I don't claim to have seen every entry from around the world, but it's hard to imagine five better than this deliciously offbeat comedy, as wildly inventive as anything Billy Wilder ever conceived.

The Passion of the Christ should have left audiences in a state of exaltation. Instead it just leaves audiences exhausted.

Sci-fi has rarely been so playful.

Doesn't have much to say.

By the end, everything that was initially serious about the film becomes silly and everything appealing about it turns sour.

Teen sex comedies always have more homoerotic moments than you can shake a ... whatever ... at, but Eurotrip seems overly concerned with penises and predatory men. This brand of humor, a time-honored crutch for comedy writers, is both lazy and unseemly.

The movie [Sugarman] made gives little indication that she understands teen girls, dramatic or plain. Much of Confessions seems clueless and -- even worse for moviegoers of any age -- listless.

The film pays off eventually with a lovely story of friendship between two lonely men.

But the jury is still out on Romano's future in movies. Hackman blows him off the screen.

From the standpoint of humanizing Sudan's continuing refugee problem, Lost Boys is a gem. It doesn't preach. It doesn't prettify.

Blanc is completely without vanity in showing the physical deterioration wrought by addiction. Her performance is as chilling as Lee Remick's in "Days of Wine and Roses.''

Light on inner conflict and heavy on cliches.

The offbeat drama The Seagull's Laughter is the kind of movie I appreciate because it never announces where it's headed.

Misbegotten mess.

A mildly pleasing romantic comedy, a trifle held together by Drew Barrymore's charm and a decent high-concept gimmick.

This is a science fiction film, but like all excellent movies in the genre, the focus never strays from the human heart.

Charmingly offbeat in the vein of early Woody Allen.

A heartbreaking, powerful drama.

Delivers laughs most of the way through.