John Cusack

Cutesy stuff, breezily amusing but...a basically weightless and disposable date movie.

Zesty enough to make the ol' noir two-step seem worthwhile.

Though it panders shamelessly, it's not entirely unwelcome in a time when the PG movie is an endangered species.

The invitation to introspection about empty American lives is a good idea, but who are we kidding? Hot Tub Time Machine is built for gross gags...and wan '80s nostalgia...

Full of...goofy ironies, and while it ain't Molière, it is a pretty great entry in the teen-comedy genre.

Like Anatomy of a Murder, The Graduate, and Daniels' own Precious rolled into one wacked-out bloody Southern Gothic that's considerably less than the sum of those parts...

Despite admirable work from Whitaker and Winfrey, Lee Daniels' The Butler is nearly crushed by its own symbolic weight and its contrivance of a central character arc from keeping one's head down to learning to stand up.

Honorable...deeply moving...takes a considered approach to Wilson, sound in dramatic and editorial construction and insightful in its psychological subtexts.

When Lee cooks up a stew this heady, one best recognize...the right film at the right time, Lee’s most creatively fertile and socially immediate narrative feature in years.