Mark Caro

"There's no question that Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill, Vol. 1' is a virtuoso piece of filmmaking; what's questionable is whether it's more than that"  

"For such a rich visual movie, 'Reloaded' tells far more than it shows"

"We get few insights about what makes Ali tick (...) The problem isn't Smith, who does as good a job as imaginable impersonating the boxing champ"  

"Animated films excel in conjuring up colorful fantasy worlds, but few evoke an actual time and place as vividly -- and playfully -- as 'The Iron Giant' does. (...) Rating: *** (out of four)"  

"Someone gave 23-year-old Harmony Korine a camera as well as a million-dollar budget, and he came back with this unwatchable, pretentious freak show"  

"It should be a funny movie (...) But at its center is a megastar who takes her role as a stripper awfully seriously"  

"A soundtrack desperately seeking a movie (…) Rating: *½ (out of 4)"  

"Raunchy, smart, ebullient, melancholy, insightful, surprising, funny, frank and sexy as all get-out

"Resembles an old Nine Inch Nails video. Missing from the mix are any characters with whom you'd want to spend one minute around a campfire."

"The absurd meets the violent meets the droll, and we just watch from the outside, never having been drawn in by anything resembling believable feelings or behavior."

"It's the cinematic equivalent of having a saccharine-coated tongue depressor jammed down your throat."  

"Neither sinful nor particularly bad, the movie nonetheless diverts us when it should transport us. Its heroes' hearts may lie out at sea, but its soul never leaves dry land."

"An imaginatively told tale of sibling rivalry and the pressures of great expectations"

"If you like Redford, Spy Game will be a real treat: a fast electric thriller full of the old Sundance charm"

"It's as if the movie itself has been sprinkled with fairy dust"

"For a movie that begins so intriguingly, Boiler Room becomes boilerplate all too quickly."  

"A cutesy, heavy-handed morality tale that contains nary a believable moment."

"An overblown clunker full of bad jokes, howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences"

"An innocuous teen film."

"Filling his movie with bright colors and giddy energy, Branagh has made a labor of love in which the labor is all too apparent."