Without them (Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis), the melodramatic chronicle of real-life swimmer Tony Fingleton's formative years would have very little going for it.

Modest comedy-drama.

Can't decide what it wants to be when it grows up.

The filmmaker's attempt to explore the outer boundaries of erotic and violent obsession are undone by the murkiness of the execution, and only the highly committed and forceful performances by the two leads give the aptly titled Bad Guy any distinction.

Sub-par video camerawork and editing make the film a trying and tedious experience, despite the engaging personality and impressive physicality of its star.

In an awkward split-personality way, it works some of the time.

A winningly restrained lead performance by Tommy Lee Jones, who also exec produced, isn't enough to put the film on the boxoffice scoreboard.

The charisma and hard work by his two leads allows Boorman to succeed beyond all expectations.

Shaky story and predictable developments make this an off-key ballad.

Plays like a pilot for a TV sitcom. It sets up enough story threads for an entire season yet nothing much actually happens during the 105-minute running time.

So much is unspoken and this slice of reality is so thin and slow as to make the film downright unsatisfying.

Shorter and punchier but nearly as hokey as the original.

David Duchovny delivers a clearly heartfelt but terminally mawkish and awkward directorial debut in House of D.

It lacks the genuine wit to elevate it to a truly satirical level.

The Game of Their Lives has a great sports story to tell, yet the filmmakers fumble it away.

The drama gets stuck in a dispiritingly dull rut and fails to build toward what is supposed to be a something of a crowd-rousing triumph over adversity.

Acting is similarly routine with the glorious exception of Hilton, who is so bad she steals the show.

Garcia has his moments as a wild man but the script never really allows him to plumb the artist's emotional depths.

The film is thought-provoking but not terribly involving.

Sequins will tax the patience of most viewers not enthralled with endless close-ups of beads and brocades.

The story itself is silly and exaggerated.

Ultimately neither funny nor touching enough to make much of an impact, but it does offer many small, insightful moments along the way.

This adaptation of South African writer Olive Schreiner's cult novel is too cute by far, sapping emotional resonance from a story that was in its original incarnation apparently far darker.

An often imaginative though less than magical family feature.

Ultimately comes across as a soporific costume drama featuring a gallery of miscast stars.

It's a chick flick with a vengeance but even in its most sentimental moments, stars Hilary Duff and Heather Locklear make this feel-good-about-yourself movie feel ... well, good.

A hit-and-miss affair. It has moments of unexpected, offbeat comedy, but most of the time neither the characters nor the situations engage the viewer.

King of the Corner has been adapted from Gerald Shapiro's "Bad Jews and Other Stories" and suffers from an odd, disjointed quality.