We're a long way from the creative energy, heart, and charm of Henson's Muppet movies, even though I'm not ready for the Henson Company to stop trying.

A brisk and consistently funny family entertainment. [new DVD review]

The series may well have been the last great variety show, weaving running-gag comedy through standards, novelty songs, and sketches performed with impeccable puppetry and alongside entertainment legends.

Few family films have the breadth of appeal of The Muppet Movie, the best screen evidence of the Muppeteers' dedication to magnificent illusion. [new DVD review]

Take two "mahna"s and call me in the morning.

An extraordinary, often mesmerizing achievement of design and performance that's held back by an underdeveloped script and a milquetoast leading character.

The chaotic narrative proceeds in fits and starts, and the sights and sounds are often dated, but somehow the film's wit and wonder linger in the mind.

Atkinson's over-the-top clowning is catnip for the wee ones, but adults will find it an acquired taste.

Kidman's psychiatrist is the biggest dolt--err, bolt--in a machine that turns out nothing but phoniness.

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.

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.

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.

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...