Radford takes a stylish but decidedly low-key tack, demanding naturalist acting to crawl under the viewer's skin.

While it's a dazzling feat of screenwriting, less would be more...Still, Haggis evinces remarkable skill [and] with actors like these, who needs subtleties?

A confused and confusing compromise at best and a dull obfuscation of history at worst.

Sir Michael Caine and Katie Holmes on Batman Begins and Career Highlights

Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman on Batman Begins and Career Highlights

David S. Goyer and Charles Roven on Batman Begins

Simon Abkarian on Yes and Career Highlights

Sally Potter on Yes

Joan Allen on Yes and Career Highlights

It's the risks that pay off most handsomely in It's All Gone Pete Tong, a curious mash-up of dance-culture mockumentary and searing biopic.

Matthew Vaughn on Layer Cake, Bond, Harry Potter, and X3

Daniel Craig on Layer Cake and Career Highlights

Populated solely with hateful characters...strictly for connoisseurs of crass.

Earns points for resisting the usual corny romantic comedy gimmicks (I'm looking at you, The Wedding Date!) for most of its running time.

Kim Ki-duk on 3-Iron and Career Highlights

The affectionate ribbing of the cultural milieu and Joan Chen's sly performance raise this a cut above the...[formulaic] lesbian romances and "my crazy family" comedies.

Duchovny shows signs of wit and wisdom [but this] feels much more written than lived...for every funny or gut-wrenching moment, three head-scratching ones are sure to follow.

Making poetry cinematic requires greater imagination than King evinces...If the medium isn't always as sturdy as the message, that's a fault that can be readily overlooked.

Look at Me...states the film's theme: the difficulty of getting...attention and the horrible realization that, when it comes, it usually comes for the wrong reasons.

Guka Omarova's assured first feature Schizo is a noir forced out into the sunlight.

I'd say that this mixed bag is better toted home from a video store, but Wong Kar-Wai's just not as swoony on a picture tube...cineastes, proceed with caution.

Fever Pitch may be something short of miraculous, but perhaps it isn't how you play the game that matters after all, as long as you have a "winning" personality.

David Duchovny on House of D

Masculine brooding [fuels] Steamboy, with its monolithic, steam-spewing tower, powered by balls, constantly rumbling out of control.

The director's Fincher-esque style may finally beat out intellectual substance, but it's a fair fight, grounded in the existential horror of essential emotional truths.

You may not "get krunked" with Beauty Shop, but you know what you're getting into. It's sitcom-ready material that delivers on its promise.

Here among the grapes is the flow of history, draining aging old-world tradition to its dregs as speed-oriented mass production tops it off.

A warm movie that's well cast and funny enough as it works through passive-aggressiveness to aggressive-aggressiveness and finally the acceptance of family.

Bullock's quippy snippiness isn't enough...If Miss Congeniality is a consolation prize, let's hope Miss Congenialty 2 is a parting 'gift.'

For all its failings...[has] enough thoughtfulness, creative energy, and comedic idiosyncracy to outpace any five modern comedies, much less two.

A somber accounting crafted with impressive verisimilitude and anchored by Bruno Ganz's rock-solid performance as the Führer...perhaps the definitive film on its subject.

Personally, I hope the press notes for Ice Princess will be the only ones this year to include the phrase "hunky zamboni driver," but you just never know.

The Land of Enchantment lives up to its name in this unusual and surprisingly affecting comedy-drama.

Interest never wanes as this story unfolds, though [screenwriter] Uchovsky starts a lot more than he can finish satisfactorily in 104 minutes.

Joan Chen on Saving Face and Career Highlights

Holding back tears, Willis actually delivers the soon to be immortal line "Yeah, Tommy, Captain Wubba's gonna save Planet Xenon." Now, that sounds like a movie.

I'm hard-pressed not to recommend Robots as an energetic family-movie distraction...[but] plotting is...mechanical.

John Duncan on Batman and Robin and Career Highlights

I'm everywhere. I'm like poo.

Dear Frankie isn't a good film, but it is a nice little movie...[about] what can happen when people become the conscious artists of their own lives.

I was more interested in, with Batman, a little bit more mystery-type stories than him being a vigilante-type character.

A valuable if understandably haphazard record of the American occupation of Iraq.

Like Scream remade with butter knives...takes a lazily superficial tack on the old werewolf yarn.

Emotional truth and delicate visual cues distinguish a story so patiently naturalistic that the viewer will feel a part of this dysfunctional family.