Cheadle impressively carries the entire picture, delivering the kind of note-perfect performance that's absolutely deserving of Oscar consideration.

A sharply observed tragicomedy that draws laughter as genuinely as it coaxes tears, the nicely paced film tempers its themes of loss and sorrow with a cynically witty edge and is graced by a perfectly pitched Sigourney Weaver performance.

Ultimately, the film staggers under the weight of its pretensions, its plot spiraling into murky illegibility.

Kevin Spacey, both as star and director, has created a hugely entertaining, highly empathetic portrait of a man for whom music was literally the thing that kept him alive.

While it certainly looks swell thanks to director John Moore's striking visuals, the wings of this rebuilt "Phoenix" have been clipped by generic scripting and a short supply of dramatic tension.

The result is a film both poetic and profound.

Brooks is solidly in charge of this feel-good fairy tale as he gets terrific performances from everyone including two super-talented child actors.

Scorsese has crafted a rip-roaringly gorgeous-looking, beautifully acted biographical epic. But while firing on all cylinders, there's something oddly distancing about the picture.

Devolves into a repetitive comedy that squanders a hugely talented cast.

Under Eastwood's painstakingly stripped-down direction -- his filmmaking has become the cinematic equivalent of Hemingway's spare though precise prose -- the story emerges as that rarest of birds, an uplifting tragedy.

A thoughtful, provocative effort that makes up for its narrative failings with its astute philosophical musings.

Dolls soon becomes overloaded with symbolism, and consequently suffocates the audience.

Stephen Mirrione's fast-paced editing and David Holmes' pop-rock score propel the story ever forward whether one follows the twists or not.

Although A Tale of Two Sisters has some excellent suspense sequences, it falters badly during the dramatic parts.

Wonderfully weird and wistful adventure-comedy about a fish-out-of-water oceanographer.

Repetitive and ultimately a victim of its own hysteria, the U.K. indie is nonetheless an impressive exercise in high-tech gothic style, with a convincingly deranged Lee Evans.

If ever there was a lusty, lowbrow genre film destined for a life on video, this is it.

While the film sometimes plays like an hour TV medical drama padded to reach feature length, Sawant achieves touching, naturalistic performances from a fine ensemble cast.

This is a work of art so deep and resonant that it puts most narrative films to shame.

Should reasonably please fans of the genre before assuming its place in the horror section of your local video store.

A glorious new addition to martial-arts cinema.

Tells a gripping story that resonates with numerous subtexts.

A challenging, thought-provoking debut that compassionately questions the relevance of celibacy in the Catholic Church.

Both intensely thoughtful and wonderful to look at.

The picture is essentially a tearjerker, with little originality or insight.

Pitch-perfect performances bring it all home, particularly that of Danish leading man Mikkelsen.

Definitely third-rate Holocaust material.

Determined to be faithful to the strong, often shocking language and in-your-face drama in Marber's mannered writing, Nichols and his actors find no way to lift Closer into a realm that enlightens.