Linney remains a full-blooded character so memorable that she's worth watching - even in a less-than-memorable movie.

This is the kind of people-driven story that the movies used to give us - before special effects took over.

One of the best football movies ever, Nights in the end celebrates the game.

Actor John Corbett, so clean-cut in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Raising Helen," goes surprisingly scruffy here as someone who apparently studied music under Grizzly Adams.

A bittersweet relationship drama with enough honest emotion and gentle humor to move even the steeliest heart.

Beauty is about two-thirds the serious-edged romp it would like to be, which still leaves a lot of room for tony fun.

A surprisingly funny, female-driven romp — as long as you don't question too many plot particulars.

There has been a need for a big-screen feature about firefighter heroics since Sept. 11, but as drama, Ladder 49 falls short of even the second rung.

Story is everything and Shark's is rather thin and soupy, despite the winning improvisational skills of stars Will Smith and Jack Black.

What emerges is part screwball comedy, absurdist farce, social satire and earnest self-exploration. If it had the unwavering focus and clear-eyed vision of Russell's previous two features, I Heart Huckabees might have been brilliant.

Offers a compelling portrait of human tragedy and the journey to redemption.

Viewers who like clean storytelling may not be happy. Those who savor ironic wrap-ups will be.

For those who like their spoofs silly and their cartoonish gore vivid, Shaun offers some amusement.

All this dreary movie has is a terrible whodunit payoff.

More coming-of-age story than biopic, this Guevara odyssey is a transformative adventure well worth watching.

Mr. 3000 isn't nearly as fun as an afternoon of America's Pastime.

Bettany is the best thing about the movie. A wonderful dramatic actor, he also proves to be richly skilled at romantic comedy, playing Peter with an easy grace and a droll sense of humor.

Worse, the story is so thin and clichéd, it seems as if a computer wrote the screenplay and a robot directed it.

Though there's nothing wrong with moral outrage, it doesn't always aid the telling of a complex story. More subtlety might have worked better.

A well-paced action film in the vein of "Speed."

Should the desire to see a clever zombie movie strike, try the recent remake of "Dawn of the Dead" or last year's "28 Days."

The casting falters on every level compared with Queens.

Thackeray said that he wanted "to leave everybody dissatisfied and unhappy at the end of the story." Nair may have had other intentions, but by film's end, audiences are bound to be left dissatisfied with the choppy and confusing storytelling style and unhappy about the missed opportunity.

A movie just good enough to keep nurturing rooting interest as you watch it.

At least director Dwight Little (Free Willy 2) gives us enough B-movie speed to keep Orchid from becoming a fountain of aging.

Here's a late-August dog-days atrocity from the "aren't farts funny?" school of filmmaking.

The movie's premise is as dopey as they come: A serial killer with a conscience is killing other serial killers.

In a summer filled with dumb comedies, this might prove to be the dumbest. Think "Road Trip" meets "City Slickers." Then dial the humor down a few notches, and you're left Without a Paddle.