Sean Connery's fourth Bond film, Thunderball, slips from the peak of From Russia with Love and Goldfinger, but still provides plenty of thrills of the brand only 007 can provide.

Sean Connery's second outing as James Bond became his personal favorite, and that of many Bond fans around the world.

The Bond series developed a winning formula, and this prototypical adventure featured many elements that stuck...

For most of Die Another Day's incorrigible 132 minutes, I had a bloody good time.

Equal parts comedy (inevitably only-in-America satire) and Oedipal psycho-drama...[from] the bard of American political cinema.

A scathing insider look at Hollywood...De Niro gives one of his most winning performances of recent years...

George Lucas adopted a new mantra: 'It's only a movie, it's only a movie, it's only a movie.' And he's right. It'll certainly do for a Friday night. But to...fans, the 1980s films are more than movies.

A deathless comedy classic.

The Incredible Hulk gets 'er done, but while  "Hulk smash!" is essential, it's also undeniably uninteresting when handed over to a computer.

What a pleasure it is, then, to report that Burton's version tends more to the abattoir than the amusement park...

Despite the stress of the strike, creator/head writer/star Tina Fey and her sterling team of writers and actors crafted new highs for the series...

Between flurries of schtick, Williams discusses his formative years, credits his acting teachers by name, and offers philosophical insights into the actor's craft.

A modern cinematic classic...the alchemical reaction of a director and a charmed collaboration of actors, writers, and design artists...

Unfortunately, the film’s editing creates a confusing chronology and awkward pace, but it’s easy to see why producers saw a satisfying audience experience in Kearns’ moral crusade.

A film that stands the best chance of winning the hearts and minds of those who now embrace the gay 'recovery' movement.

Favreau fully respects the material, and brings to the table a highly developed sense of humor and—praise the heavens—taste.

With its faithful rendering of a true inspirational story, Rudy earns its sentiment...an irresistable inspirational movie for all ages.

A crowd-pleasing romantic comedy with enough complexity to set it ahead of the pack.

It's easy to forget the idiosyncracies of a film that so successfully trades on adolescent male fantasies and nightmares.

The annoyance of its Screenwriting 101 script is hard to overcome, but The Lucky Ones just about works in spite of itself, as an actor’s showcase.

[We] talked about Harold and Maude as a tone. Fisher King, I brought that up. And then Alfie and Five Easy Pieces and a few others…We wanted something realistic but funny…moving and emotionally deep.

Incorporates Freudian psychodrama, twisted romance, and national satire while giving redemption the Heimlich maneuver.

It’s too easy to hold the film’s at arm’s length and scoff at Sparks’ cynical repetition of psycho-romance clichés and meteorological metaphors.

Not much distinguishes this determinedly average Hollywood outing, but it can claim Sydney Pollack's final performance and Patrick Dempsey's first big-screen starring role since his career second-wind...

The most significant achievement in the last forty years of American cinema.

Affleck's lanky, offhand softness hardly suits the superheroic archetype... [but] The R-rated Director's Cut...deserves an extra half-star.

Something borrowed, something bloody.

Corteo is classic Cirque du Soleil, a multilingual paegant of music, dance, acrobatics, gymnastics, and clowning...the ingenious production design run with highly refined coordination.

Sexuality is really a way that people’s souls get expressed...I know that we have a tendency as Americans to sort of not go there, but I’m kind of interested in going there because I think it tells you a lot about someone’s psyche...

The Wachowski Brothers overshoot the mark with Speed Racer, an eccentric misfire that panders to the ADHD set and—in the adult arena—idiots and acid-droppers.

A wacky weekly comedy-mystery-adventure-romance that the whole family can enjoy, in colors that haven't been so super-saturated since the 1966 Batman.

His saddle bag is a mixed one, though Pale Rider still has the touch of quality associated with latter-day Eastwood.

Improvisational chops and sheer force of comic will...can result in funny moments and even a funny movie, but there's something conspicuously lazy about the script...

Delivered big with breathtaking location work and an all-star cast...

The slick, colorful, nicely acted Night Watch is all I ask and never get from Hollywood's monochromatic, humorless vampire pictures.

You don't need to have seen the original to pick up the user-friendly sequel. Take a deep breath after the intimidating opening montage and you'll be just fine.

Millar and Gough's final season gives cause for reflection on the bumpy evolution of a series once intended to keep its roots planted in the title town of Smallville, Kansas.

NBC's The Office has become a TV comedy classic in its own right and holds the crown of the funniest series on American TV today.

Both a gory monster movie and a Twilight Zone-styled morality play on mob mentality and religion run amok.

A rousing, high-spirited family entertainment rightly regarded as one for the ages.

Not just another cop show...traffic[s] in the shadowy moral ambiguity of noir.

Producer-director Sam White brainstormed the concept of Moe as Hitler, Curly as Göring, and Larry as Goebbels, promising, despite the dark reality, 'I'll make it funny.'

A highly satisfying old-fashioned comedy-drama...[with] a strong undercurrent of religion and philosophy that helps Hunt make her film profound in a way that sneaks up on you.

Another predictable romantic comedy, one that insists that spending time locked into an unhappy marriage doesn't breed contempt, but sows love.

Tone deaf...only slightly better than the worst sitcom you've ever seen.

It's Coogan's show, in a grotesquely overstated performance that makes sense for the character but isn't always easy to watch.

A clear-headed and comprehensible picture of American fiscal policy, but one that's not in the least boring.

An allegory of what's wrong with our country...Mamet has spent the last decade layering popular entertainments with subversive ideas about social politics.

Preserves a time when one could not only get away with making an allegory with an existential hero, but stock it with an ensemble from the Actors Studio.

An expertly crafted Hollywod entertainment...[constructed] as a series of grippingly fateful 'moments of truth.'