An almost successful comedy.

Things happen in a flat, deadpan way.

The last 15 minutes finally get it together for what passes as a movie experience with a considerable "gotcha!" quotient.

Enchanting documentary that also serves as an animated gallery of Goldsworthy’s uniquely ephemeral art.

Cate Blanchett has the title role, and she does wonders with it, bringing a degree of passion but also suggesting something essentially unevolved in Charlotte's character.

Not about the justice or injustice of the legal system. Rather it's about the tragedy of Sam's predicament.

A crackerjack combination of live action, special effects and recycled footage.

It is an exceptional accomplishment.

A British costume film that's funny but not at all fusty.

Dark and beautifully directed melodrama about the strange intersection of racism and emotional need.

It's hardly possible to overstate what a welcome change of pace The Shipping News is for admirers of Kevin Spacey.

Connects so often and so persuasively that its shortcomings -- the movie goes slack from time to time -- really don't amount to much.

Channels the spirit of Frank Capra in this serio-sentimental fable about a man who loses his memory but finds his soul.

The role of Kate, a spunky but romantically unfulfilled marketing expert, seems made for Ryan. Unfortunately, Ryan no longer seems made for it.

Inspiring and largely unsentimental, this is as much a love story as a tale of courage.

Doesn't look like a movie somebody made. It looks like a movie somebody hallucinated and put up on the screen.

Inventive and intermittently amusing.

At 80 minutes, this might have been a delight. At more than two hours, it's so much of a good thing that it starts to become a bad thing.

An odd picture, a rumination on depression and self-discovery that's couched as an office comedy.

Gets it right. It's a wonderful movie. Watching it, one can't help but get the impression that everyone involved was steeped in Tolkien's work, loved the book, treasured it and took care not to break a cherished thing in it.

Presented without preachiness or affectation, Kandahar is a short, matter-of-fact visit to hell.

Stuns with writing, acting, direction.

A daring, free-spirited and ultimately moving performance by Benjamin Bratt lies at the beating heart of Pinero.

Splendid.

Proves that it's possible to make a movie so tasteless and so crude that audiences don't laugh. This is worthwhile information. It means there's a limit.

Might have been about the rise and fall of a family of gifted children. That would have been the typical way to approach the story. Instead, it's something rare -- a movie about people who have already fallen, whose best days are behind them.

The film's aim -- to dazzle and inspire -- is sapped by Cruise's vein-popping, running-the-marathon performance.

A powerful allegory.