Kirsten Dunst

Zesty and essentially true to its source, Spider-Man does the job.

Freer and more commanding, even as it serves the grand designs of a superheroic trilogy.

The generic parallel plots of sports-movie suspense and falling-in-love sap squeeze stars Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst together like so much peanut butter and jelly.

Like the rest of Johnston's oeuvre, Jumanji puts vivid characters through paces that will quicken any child's pulse.

A character plans out a 42-hour-and-11 minute journey accompanied by a 16-CD soundtrack....Elizabethtown feels every bit as long and music-saturated...

Once she makes the sound feminist point that it wasn't easy being a girl in 1768, Coppola proves intellectually taxed.

Go-for-broke pop entertainment...more action, more humor, and more nastiness than either previous installment, often in loopy combinations.

The director's emotional sadism and laughable bluntness in his symbolic approach leave us in the cold, to pick through the art-auction catalog of Manuel Alberto Claro's cinematography and contemplate Dunst's award-winning suffering.

This pretty period-pictorial companion piece to the novel fatally misses out on the brain-firing raw buzz that Kerouac felt and passed on to his readers...