It works its gilded butt off to give you your money's worth.

The action is ridiculously overwrought, a state-of-the-art combination of CGI wizardry and Hong Kong-style wirework so removed from the laws of physical reality that it might as well be animated.

Boasts spunk, imagination and a strong performance from Smallville's very talented Sam Jones III.

An entertaining piece of good ol' boy fluff with plenty of car and boat chases.

Gitai's film is an interesting, if not entirely successful, adaptation of an excellent book.

Entertaining as it sometimes is, IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU has such a puppy-dog determination to be liked that you want to get it off your lap.

A hip-hop reimagining of "The Great Gatsby" that fails both as an update of F. Scott Fitzgerald's dissection of American aspirations and class barriers and on its own boorish terms.

Give this Japanese import points for originality, but not much else.

The third entry in this uneven franchise is a straightforward, gruesome, and relatively successful exercise in disturbing frights.

It took the combined directorial talents of Ivan Passer and Sergei Bodrov to complete this historical epic about the 18th-century attempt to unify the contentious Kazakh tribes into what would become Kazakhstan (no Borat jokes, please), but the result is really little more than an intermittently entertaining.

The two leads are honestly played, and there is a nice feel for the scariness that sex has for adolescents, but the screenplay gets bogged down in silly subplots and stereotypes.

It's well acted and it's entertaining -- and who can resist a movie where Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau are brothers, and Robert Duvall is their dad?

Before it goes down in a soggy mess of scary movie cliches and insultingly stupid plot contrivances, director and co-writer Nick Willing's adaptation of Madison Smartt Bell's novel Dr. Sleep gets in some good, seriously creepy licks.

Supremely silly but undeniably fun sequel.

As meticulously deranged as its paranoid protagonist.

With his spidery fingers and his velvet eyes, the lean, languid Snoop Dogg was born to be an undead player, and clearly relishes the role of Jimmy Bones.

Supervixens is primarily for Meyer cultists, and even they may be put off by the film's length and excessive violence

Apocalyptic carnal horror with a strong Alejandro Jodorworsky vibe.

This film got made because Seinfeld is famous, but it's still hard not to wish the filmmakers had devoted a couple of years to following Adams instead. The guy's such a throbbing bundle of arrogance, raw nerves and self-destructive insecurity that you can see the flame-out coming.

What does make the film disturbing is the way in which it positions Hitler as a mere mouthpiece for what was already in the air, a role he was convinced to play after suffering one disappointment too many at the hands of Jews like Rothman.

No two ways about it: The screenplay is derivative. But the location adds a little novelty to the standard-issue running and screaming.

The film is hardly profound, but the form perfectly fits the content..

Characteristically stylish and willfully outre, and uncharacteristically watchable.

Macchio, for his part, is an obviously intelligent actor with terrific instincts. Still, this movie leaves a bit to be desired: much of the movie seems recycled, and there is precious little subtlety in the villains' characterizations. The film is also about 15 minutes too long, with far too many convenient plot devices.

Everyone involved obviously had a blast, but in the end this is a one-joke movie, and the joke is stretched too thin.

It's a must-see for horror buffs and anime fans; and while it lacks the haunting thematic underpinnings of "Blood The Last Vampire," -- it's a more satisfying movie-going experience.

It sounds like an overfamiliar brand of Southern Gothic, but British director Terence Davies adds some distinctive touches of visual poetry.

The film's most fully realized performance is Chris Cooper's.