This just may be the greatest war movie ever made.

I found myself roaring at the grotesque way some of the characters talk to their pets, pausing only briefly when I realized that I do precisely the same thing.

I went into Magnolia like a kid running onto a beach with a pail and shovel ready to explore, only to find myself neck deep in quicksand three hours later, screaming for help.

What's fascinating about Morris's riveting portrait is the notion that monsters can be born not just out of overwhelming evil, but pure egotism and stupidity -- much more mundane, yet still dangerous.

One major inappropriate casting decision (Kirsten Dunst, who's made a solid leap to young adulthood in "Dick" and "Drop Dead Gorgeous" is cast as 14-year-old Lux?) and an underdeveloped motive for the girls' self-demise left me unaffected.

Any minor annoyances are eclipsed by great performances from the entire cast.

The talented Mr. Minghella is aping Alfred Hitchcock as effectively as Tom Ripley is doing Dickie Greenleaf.

Tumbleweeds has a certain hopefulness about it. "Anywhere But Here," on the other hand, gives you nowhere to go.

This is a warm, accessible story with delightful characters and a nice metaphor about following your own rules.

Simply, one of the year's best films.

A heart-tugging potboiler that is at once poetic, tragic and cold as steel.

Compellingly watchable.

This may be what life was like for Levinson back in the day, but it makes a boring movie for the rest of us.

While slight and fairly unassuming considering its subject, the cast is uniformly fine.

Zemeckis is more interested here in getting us thinking (and feeling) than in telling us what to think.

See Wonder Boys for the acting, particularly McDormand and Maguire, but use the goofy moments to get popcorn refills.

May well stand as his (Chan) final word on true martial arts cinema.

More of a moody performance piece than a film.

There's a great movie to be made with this story.

Manages to present rave youth's on-the-go attitude as well as "Swingers" exposed its hipster culture.

One of year's most thought-provoking and soul-stirring films.

It's the triumph of the human spirit in its never-ending quest to be an original no matter what the establishment says.

It's super!

Soderbergh, like Tarantino, has a knack for making every shady character onscreen fascinating.

The journey -- long, dark, pungent, and twisted as it is -- is well worth the taking.

Never before have two such skilled actors been so monstrously squandered in a movie so replete with failed gags and pathetic gaffs.

The Wachowski Brothers have created some of the most unrivaled and imaginative sci-fi in years.

Professional wrestling might not be real, folks -- but, after watching this poignant and simple documentary, you might start questioning where the make-believe begins.