Comes tantalizingly close to the genius of Hal Ashby's unforced, sympathetic humanism...

A riotous story of friendship, debauchery, and pizza bagels.

Allen's old-fashioned films are now like a ratty pair of slippers that are too comfortable even to consider throwing away.

Meadows' recollections of his own youth...lend a terrible immediacy to an unusually potent coming-of-age story.

It's been quite some time since a fantasy adventure this cheekily entertaining has made its way down the pipeline.

One of the most enjoyable films of the year to date, Scott Frank's The Lookout has all the good points and none of the bad of a screenwriter-turned-director labor of love.

If the story of a stodgy but conflicted Stasi captain gives sympathy to a historical devil, it also allows for an intriguing angle on the evergreen cinematic theme of voyeurism.

It's Rickman who runs away with the whole film by running the gamut from teflon smoothie to desperate madman.

Whether taken as a cultural relic or the definitive screen treatment, Othello demands to be seen for Olivier's bravura, high-wire performance.

We've come a long way in terms of animated superhero adventures, but the Superfriends have an old-fashioned charm and, to many, a nostalgic kick.

Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, & Christopher Mintz-Plasse: [Hill:] 'The only reaction we've had with Lindsay Lohan was that impression we were doing of the newspaper...I was doing an impression of her s#$tting her pants in jail.'

Paterson's lovely, sweet story locates unexpected emotional power...

A good movie, but also one that betrays the strain of great expectations, a four-episode length, and a 400-episode back catalog.

A great big cheeseburger of a movie...For those who have been waiting for Philip Glass to score a pillow fight, your wait is over.

In his 36 years of filmmaking, David Lynch has never been more fearless or more fearsome...Inland Empire brims with surprising and scary images.

Tenaciously manages some memorable moments and makes a virtue of its slim running time by generally hastening to one of the team's most elaborate climaxes.

Cashback's eccentricity holds, but Ellis and his audience would have benefited from a clearer direction and a bit more restraint.

There is nothing new under the sun, but at least the talented Boyle still brings the heat.

Boyle's energetic pace and typically creative visuals suit the film's fanciful brushes with magic realism.

A straightforward, unfussy musical comedy, one that entertains twice as much as the dour Dreamgirls.

Danny Boyle: 'Cillian at the end of the film, when he touches the sun...it was like 40 feet high and like 60 feet wide of lamps...it was like a U2 concert.'

Could stand to focus more on scrupulous sociocultural history and less on compulsively entertaining the audience...has enough untold story and acting chops to make it worthwhile.

Laurent Tirard: 'If you were an actor, you weren't allowed to be buried in a cemetery. You had to die in a ditch...what happened when Molière died was that the church refused to bury him. But because the king liked him very much, he found a way.'

To best enjoy the energetic and big-hearted Gypsy Caravan, know that it's not so much a concert film as it is a cultural-anthropology documentary...

A collision of Jeannie's story and Tim's story, and while that's appropriate, it also results in wobbly tone shifts (Gypsy meets Equus, without the horses?).

King's film is a boffo short wantonly stretched to feature-length, well beyond the scope of his ideas...

As the film wears on, it becomes increasingly difficult to separate the dry humor from the supposed chills. Consequently, Joshua drifts into camp.

A sort of Ambien/No-Doz cocktail likely to send all but fanboy brains into self-protective shutoff mode.

Though a debate about practical application would be welcome, Moore's people-person approach and sense of humor make Sicko a warm, humane, sad, and funny response to a social crisis.

Disappointingly generic...slips into last place in the series.

From its laughably lyrical opening to its bow-tying resolution, Lajos Koltai's Evening invites comparisons to Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movies.

A surprisingly resonant examination of getting sober, made amusing by [an] assassin's increasing honesty about his career.