The results are comical and unexpected -- and just a bit eerie.

Curiously enough plays like a 90-minute version of the old television show. That's not necessarily bad.

First-time director Tony Goldwyn (scion of the family that started MGM) brings a freshness to an old story.

A so-so, OK, perfectably acceptable, nice, rather charming romantic comedy with two stars who are entirely watchable.

In concept alone, Ravenous is anything but appetizing, but in execution it's worse than you'd imagine.

Still, it's almost impossible to entirely wreck this great chestnut of Broadway and film. Thanks mostly to the terrific songs, the new version has transporting moments. [20 March 1999, Daily Notebook, p.B1]

It's hokey, implausible and packed with red herrings, and yet it's a lot of fun.

While the plot is worthless and the battle scenes cheap-looking and unengrossing, Wing Commander has clearly defined characters and relationships. In other words, the film's young actors have nothing interesting to say, but they say it well.

It's a classy but downbeat spin on the most familiar of TV-movie formulas.

It doesn't analyze or explain it; it just presents it. The result is funny and disturbing at the same time.

Does what good horror movies do: It taps into the baser emotions.

A stupid comedy with toddlers talking like hip '90s grown-ups.

The Corruptor' quickly turns into a good bad-cop drama of fascinating moral complexity.

More than a high concept stretched to feature length. This is a funny and extremely satisfying comedy, the best in a while.

It is maliciously entertaining, up to a point.

If the dialect is hard to comprehend, that soon becomes part of the joke. It's unlikely that even the British audiences who made Lock, Stock a big hit got it all.

Talky, emphatically unsteamy psychological drama.

One of the downsides of living in a free society is that every so often someone like Myles Berkowitz gets hold of a camera.

200 Cigarettes doesn't have a bad scene or a false note. The picture is a succession of pointed little moments, nicely written by Shana Larsen and acted with comic assurance and sensitivity.

Neutralizes these characters, makes them cute and one-dimensional like fluffy dolls.

Voyeuristically wallows in the sadistic violence it professes to deplore. What hypocrisy!

Jennifer Aniston...doesn't have much screen time, but in playing this slightly insecure, affable young woman, she does her best film acting to date.

This film is family.

It's so low it scrapes through the barrel and deep into the earth's core. It's the lowest piece of garbage to hit screens in months.

It would be nice to say that Blast From the Past is, but it ain't exactly. Half-blast is more like it.

An exceptionally good movie in its first hour and an exceptionally bad one in its second.

An intermittently pleasing children's film.

It's a movie, a goofy little movie. Not so bad, but as far as food and sensuality go, ``Like Water for Chocolate'' still has the edge.