The screenplay by Eddie and Chris Borey fails to live up to the juiciness of the original premise, lacking meaningful character development and teasing out its unveiling of its mysterious plot elements in dull, plodding fashion.

The film's generosity toward Christina's decision-making is, however true to life, dramatically unsatisfying.

A cinematic hangout with a playfully prickly but very sympathetic subject, affording us a chance to sit at his feet while sampling a body of work that impresses on many levels.

Despite a premise with broad appeal and a script boasting plenty of laughs among its misfires, the high school fable falters.

The script succeeds by expanding the Paranormal Activity mythology with additional details and even a few surprising twists.

The story is rich in juicy anecdotes and epochal events, even if the man behind these striking images remains a little too elusive throughout.

Strip away the Middle East backdrop and Bethlehem is a fairly routine thriller about good cops, corrupt bureaucrats and armed criminal gangs.

Strictly for the Beliebers.

The tone veers into film-fan geekery in places, but Jodorowsky is such a natural showman and irrepressible egotist that his ancient anecdotes never become tedious.

The movie only wakes up when Hart and/or Arkin are on screen (preferably together).

Young actor Sitthiphon Disamoe helps keep the tale of a can-do kid from becoming too cute.

While Leather Bar will surely make some viewers itchy, its most compelling subject isn't whether straight guys can stand to watch one man pleasuring another. More interesting is the question of what would make this project art as opposed to porn.

Battles are sickeningly brutal, and viewers who have no ethical problem with that may object to their sheer lack of imagination.

Though it begs for a little lightening up, a moment of irony, a wink at the audience, this dead-serious fairy tale about a mysterious young woman (and a phantom automaton straight out of Hugo) is worth watching for Geoffrey Rush’s sensitive, never pandering performance.

It falls short on character definition, emotional involvement, narrative drive and originality.

Audiences willing to tune in to its blend of surreal fantasy, droll comedy and poignancy will be rewarded.

Blue Ruin is a talented but sophomoric low-budgeter that straddles the divide between genre thriller and art piece with mixed results.

The young Spanish director Eugenio Mira and his American screenwriter Damien Chazelle have fun paying homage to the pulpy potboilers of yesteryear.

With jokes that fall flat so often, the film’s cardiograph flatlines before the first five minutes are over.

Volume two gets down in ways the first half doesn't, although anything resembling real sensuality remains MIA.

It is never boring and does provoke and stimulate, although not as a turn-on, not remotely.

Nearly as extravagant as the characters it depicts, Martin Scorsese's comic, operatically-scaled film is, on a moment-by-moment basis, often madly entertaining due to its live-wire energy, exuberant performances and the irresistible appeal of watching naughty boys doing very naughty things.

Walking With Dinosaurs takes rewarding advantage of a much bigger budget and state-of-the-art technology to bring its impressive collection of Cretaceous creatures to vivid life. But while the walking part’s pretty impressive, the talking part — not so much.

Comedically, everyone's on the same page here, which means that, even when things flag, more fun isn't far off.

Though convincing in its argument that pimps and clients are treated much better than they should be in our legal system as compared to prostitutes, the film presents a picture of America's sex-trade landscape that will feel incomplete to many viewers.

A breathtakingly immersive travelogue that packs a persuasive environmental undercurrent.

The clunky narrative doesn’t ring true for a second, and the hackneyed dialogue is even worse.

Choosing it for his debut as director, Bateman demonstrates the same knack for timing and fine shadings of attitude as he does onscreen.