Kirk Honeycutt

"An oddly satisfying mesh of an international action-adventure with an extremely dark satire"

"Visually spectacular and filled with terrific performances, Martin Scorsese's take on the Howard Hughes story never quite takes flight"  

"The anti-'Spiderman' movie, one driven by effects and empty sexuality rather than richness of character and story"  

"An epic tale of survival on an isolated island, clearly wants to be seen as a metaphor for discovering what's truly important in life. But the adventure story is only intermittently successful"  

"It contains terrific sequences, and Nicholson and Sandler team up better than one might expect. But the film plays like two characters in search of a story and runs a good 15 minutes too long."  

"The film is so clever and sophisticated that you worry, slightly, that it might be too clever to connect with mainstream audiences."  

"[It] does capture the pulp verve of those 1960s Cold War thrillers"  

"For once it's true: Borat has to be seen to be believed (...) You just might want to stay through the credit crawl, too: The last shot is as funny as the first one."  

"One thing about 'The Spirit' is that it's never dull. Then again, the same can be said of Chinese water torture."  

"Anna Faris, with an assist from co-star Chris Evans, turns a formulaic rom-com into a surprisingly sweet romance. (...) There are no surprises but for once you don’t much mind."  

"Machine Gun Preacher nicely balances the action and drama, uses its locations well and has the good grace to celebrate a relatively unknown do-gooder, whatever his motivations may be"  

"One can reflect on what the young Coppola (...) might have done with such an opportunity. Unfortunately, the present-day one produces only tepid and tired imagery that would not earn high marks in any film school"  

"La Ronde 2011-style is simply a game and its makers expert gamesmen. The film is never less than intriguing. But the artifice shows all too clearly"   

"'Warrior' possesses surprising poetry and finesse. Which is not to say that it is subtle (...) This movie wants to knock you out. It will."  

"An emotionally powerful tale (...) Snow Flower and the Secret Fan represents one of Wang’s best films to date"  

"Both love stories are so tissue thin that spreading them out over years and several actors only further exposes the superficiality if not the implausibility of these romances."  

"A big disappointment for fans of Antonio Banderas and film noir."  

"'Black Death' achieves its goal of reproducing a medieval Europe awash with rats, filth and rotting corpses"  

"Feste (...) fails here to do the most basic thing -- give an audience a rooting interest, or any interest at all, in these four troubled people"  

"The surprising Swedish film 'Simple Simon' performs the neat trick of finding laughs and wisdom about a central character who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, yet does so without trivializing the serious nature of the affliction"