The film is dark, gloomy and without music, but it is also observant and highly suspenseful, with Mungiu using his often static camera to balance banal cruelty with simple generosity.

U2 3D takes the well-traveled concert film to exhilarating new heights.

At the heart of the film is a powerful performance by the beautiful and most promising Hao Lei as its tempestuous, complex heroine.

The most alarming cautionary tale for men with wandering libidos since "Fatal Attraction." It may also be the first horror movie that women drag men to see rather than the reverse.

As writer, Allen offers lazy plotting, poor characterization, dull scenes and flat dialogue.

Think "Godzilla Unplugged" -- with chillingly effective results.

Improbable and generally unfunny comedy.

While Heigl is terrific, this uninspired romantic comedy is considerably less so.

In the end, this passionate indictment of present U.S. policies stirs both sadness and outrage.

It plods along at a sluggard's pace through a weak premise with crude execution and even cruder characters to arrive at an unearned sentimental ending.

It's completely undone by its terrible screenplay, inept direction, oppressive musical score and muddy visual palette.

Slickly made -- in the good sense -- and most entertaining.

The film lacks Hong's usual insight and narrative innovation. It occasionally even feels self-indulgent.

The direction is uninspired, acting is lifeless, and the script borders on the inept.

Boasts an undeniable technical proficiency and historical authenticity, but this docudrama detailing assassin Mark David Chapman's obsession, stalking and eventual murder of the beloved Beatle nonetheless has an unavoidably exploitative feel.

His heart -- and musical soul -- is in the right place, but the film makes you at times uncomfortable with black and Southern stereotypes that may hinder some from fully enjoying an otherwise benign and cheerful tall tale of the Saturday night when rock came to rural Alabama.

This Spanish supernatural thriller begins interestingly and finishes intriguingly. But what lies between drags because the film lacks a driving story line.

Daniel Day-Lewis stuns in Paul Thomas Anderson's saga of a soul-dead oil man.

A dull actioner that looks like a bad video game.

The filmmakers were right to believe that a live-action version of this story would have failed to achieve the universality Persepolis does.

You'd think the team of Rob Reiner, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman might have had the right stuff. Alas, their labored efforts fail to lift The Bucket List out of its flatlining state.

An earnest drama about the search for self-esteem and sense of responsibility among young black people that successfully relies on its fine actors.

While it boasts a lower profile than many other Christmas releases, it might catch on with parents who want to take their kids to a movie that the entire family will actually enjoy. Nifty special effects and a first-rate British cast elevate this production.

The film, written (with Steven Rogers) and directed by Richard LaGravenese, is long and drags in places. But the chief problem is that "P.S." feels like a gimmick.

In this film, directed by Mike Nichols in one of his most satirical moods and scripted by Hollywood's most politically astute writer Aaron Sorkin, a womanizing, alcoholic, easily tempted bachelor gets elected in a Texas district that doesn't care what he does as long as he brings home the bacon.

It contains all the elements from the original film...But that's the problem: It's virtually the same movie with new locations. Oh, plus Helen Mirren. Not a bad addition, but the popcorn fun is gone.

Spectacular photography bolsters this shallow ski movie.

Teaming with Depp, his long-time alter ego, Burton makes Sweeney a smoldering dark pit of fury and hate that consumes itself. With his sturdy acting and surprisingly good voice, Depp is a Sweeney Todd for the ages.