Rene Rodriguez

"Feels like it's been pasted together from 51 other movies -- none of them good."

"The movie is pure product, and proud of it: There isn't a single surprising moment in all of its 88 minutes,"

"It's surprising to see a three-hour movie about Chicanos being distributed by a major studio, and Hackford had an opportunity to do something special. Instead, he simply gives us more of the same"

"'Medicine Man' is an adventure story with a message: We must save the Amazon rain forest. It's certainly a noble cause, filmmakers forgot to make their movie any fun"

"Even a film as shabby and humdrum as Beverly Hills Chihuahua, which never musters up the wit and beauty of a single frame of "Lady and the Tramp," is not without its pleasures."

"A very complicated movie. It is also pretty wonderful."

"The whole movie is at once formulaic, clichéd and predictable, yet surprising, engaging and filled with subtle, unexpected details"

"'Whip It' is completely predictable from the first frame. It also is ridiculously, utterly entertaining."

"Like the type of music it celebrates, Rock Star is just a lot of posing, adding up to very little."

"A sluggish, soporific dud, the dreariest big-budget science-fiction adventure since 'Dune.'"

"The fight sequences are well handled, the three leads are pleasant (and quite good, it seems, at the martial arts) and the violence is bloodless and amusing"

"It may be a work of pure fiction, with the requisite preposterous plot turns, but it still has the air of a 'what if?' scenario, and it is perfectly, thoroughly chilling."

"Like a lot of the elder Cassavetes' work, She's So Lovely contains moments of truly fine acting, its characters are all sharply drawn, and its story never seems to go anywhere"

"A forced and wholly unnecessary sequel"

"A big, bold movie that gets at undeniable truths about the way no one, no matter how powerful, is immune from manipulation"

"'Two for the Money', which was written by Dan Gilroy, is so badly constructed and illogical that its inanities manage to drown the actor (Pacino) out"

"'Dragonheart' is a silly, foolhardy epic"

"'Flyboys' is so schematic and contrived, you can anticipate exactly what scene is going to come next, and who will be the next to die in combat"

"It would have taken another director and a better script to make this movie into the serious, full-blooded epic it wants to be. But 'Power of One' succeeds in entertaining and getting audiences to think about the tragedy of apartheid"

"It is a testament to how well the movie is made that even the most hardened viewer might find himself tearing up at moments -- and you won't have to hate yourself in the morning"