An enormously impressive and massively indulgent cornucopia of 26 short films from all over the world.

Just a dull procedural, with the bland Matthew Fox driving around in a jeep and asking questions and not having them answered.

The epigrams fly, but the movie never really takes off.

Director Webber and the screenwriters, David Klass and Vera Blasi ... largely [waste] Jones and some very nice period details.

The script sets up the situation and characters nicely, and the actors are terrific.

While it's fine for a director to explore his childhood inspirations, you hope he would bring something a bit more personal to it.

Not awful, not wonderful, Jack the Giant Slayer is a midrange fairy tale epic that's a lot more ho-hum than fee-fi-fo-fum.

Comes off like a View-Master version of a tale already told.

Litvak's shoestring production sketches in episodes from Lincoln's entire administration, including a strange "Dixie'' singalong on the White House steps to mark the end of the war.

What a disappointment.

I didn't think it was physically possible to doze off at a movie as loud as A Good Day to Die Hard, but for a few moments my mind found some distant, peaceful refuge.

It's all more than a little silly, but Willis' presence at least provides undercurrents of easy jocularity.

If this long-delayed and blatantly pandering CGI malarkey is anything to go by, Hollywood's current craze for fairy tales isn't going to have a happy ending.

There isn't much to this beyond the poorly staged, rapidly edited violence; the witches, all but devoid of backstory, are basically canvasses for cartoon splatter.

The movie settles for showers of gore with intermittent moments of spoofiness.

Cohen at his best is both brazen and sly. As is The Dictator.

Of course it's offensive and tasteless. That's the point. Sometimes the jokes are excruciatingly funny.

The Dictator is funny, in addition to being obscene, disgusting, scatological, vulgar, crude and so on.

"Dark Shadows" isn't among Mr. Burton's most richly realized works, but it's very enjoyable, visually sumptuous and, despite its lugubrious source material and a sporadic tremor of violence, surprisingly effervescent.

Dark Shadows is a mess, and it's unclear whether its bizarre recipe of comedy, campy horror, and gothic melodrama will satisfy anyone, regardless of their familiarity with the source material.

In a time when even the most accomplished genre movies have the fingerprints of focus group-happy execs all over them, the relatively unmitigated quirk of Dark Shadows is worth celebrating.

The sort of stripped-down, Francophone picture that's been spoiling American action fans over the last few years. There are no Cuisinarted fight scenes, no pauses for awkward romantic subplots.

This tense French thriller never goes anywhere new, but nonetheless keeps up an admirable adrenaline kick till the end.

'The Avengers" is neither overwhelming nor underwhelming. What it expertly is, is whelming.

"The Avengers" is done well by Joss Whedon, with style and energy. It provides its fans with exactly what they desire.

One of the great joys of Marvel's The Avengers is its sense of humor about itself.