[This] blend of swoony romance and horror-styled action...[isn't] shy about detonating plot twists. 

A “human nature film,” a crime drama that observes cops and robbers in their natural habitat and studies their instinctual behaviors. 

A humble riff on the well-worn coming-of-age film. 

One of the funniest elements of Withnail & I is that it concerns three varieties of drama queen: the flamboyantly dark-minded Withnail; neurotic, ill-equipped Marwood, and the larger-than-life Monty. 

A smart and imaginative fantasy with appeal for the whole family is always cause for celebration...Time Bandits rivals Roald Dahl in its surrealism and satire. 

As a study of social façades as a means of social climbing, and as a character study of Hoskins' would-be angel, Mona Lisa excels... 

The screw-turning plot is great fodder for Hoskins and Mirren, who expertly calibrate their stressed-out character arcs. 

After six attention-grabbing seasons on the network airwaves, Lost has turned out to be more than the sum of its parts. 

Its unique oddball blend of fatalistic Hemingway-esque masculinity, swoony romance and mythology, literary allusions...and grab bag of styles...makes Pandora and the Flying Dutchman nearly as hypnotic as the romance it retells. 

Darkly funny, haunting, and perhaps hopeful...there's a keen sense of absurdism (and in Agnès Godard's brilliant photography a sort of surrealist realism, if there is such a thing) in the circumstances. 

Like its defector hero, Mao’s Last Dancer is neither here nor there...determinedly dull, even in the flatly filmed ballet sequences. 

One is always in good hands with Thompson, even in this kiddie franchise...for the kids, there’s not only the sobering reminder that they're works in progress but also lots of...fairy-tale magic, with a touch of Babe’s farm charm. 

Brought to you by Participant Media, makers of Food, Inc. and The Cove. Next time, guys, give a hoot and don’t pollute the multiplex. Save the children. 

Consummate showmanship...evidence of a huge pop idol and savvy showman with a finely tuned stage act. 

The play widely regarded as the best piece of dramatic literature ever written...[in] the only unexpurgated big-screen version. 

How do I find thee ridiculous, The Last Song? Let me count the ways... 

Julia Roberts and voluptuous production value contribute mightily to this ultimate of wish-fulfillment tales. 

The premise begs for wicked bite, but winds up poking along amiably. That’s the problem with these Joneses: it’s all too easy to keep up with them. 

Much as I would prefer to see the subtler Carell of Dan in Real Life comically negotiate a struggling marriage to Fey, we’re in a land of gunfire and super-computers. 

Deserves its status among sports films, but its ongoing appeal reflects that it's something more: an old-fashioned romantic comedy that succeeds in establishing and deepening memorable characters through memorably flavorful dialogue. 

I spent...three months doing ballet classes...Which is just an ass-kicking workout. And then I met a couple of dancers that had danced under him and interviewed them, and spent the evening sort of drinking wine and listening to their stories... 

The meetings that you have with the costume designer are just as important as the meetings you have with the director and the writer. Because you are putting this character's aesthetics together. 

Nothing's bigger than life. Life is great, right? Some aspects of life are bigger than others. Some personalities in life are bigger than others. 

[Cage:] I like to take bad sounds and just see if I can make them sound good...And I make it extra-hard on myself. But otherwise it's not interesting for me. You know, so I'm always tryin' to mess it up a little bit, or subvert it. 

These guys are just so involved in comic books, and all they've ever seen is Spider-Man's like this, Batman's like that, Superman can do these things...they're kind of brainwashed by this world...quite naively and not thinking about the consequences... 

Kids who want to be astronauts get to go to space camp when they're little. I get to be on a sitcom...people have this connotation with child actors that, like, you know, it's some kind of horrible burden. But for me it was great. 

[Moretz:] You really get into character when you put on the jacket and the pants and the boots and the amazing wig...I kind of walked like a boy. It was really funny. Every time I was in that costume, I was always, like, really tough. 

[Goldman:] Matthew and I were concentrating on the movie, and John and Mark were concentrating on the comic—apart from when we stole John away to do the animated sequence! 

When we think of our heart or soul, we kind of press toward our actual physical heart, but I think that kind of soul or emotion can’t exist on one’s own; it has to be between people... 

I had an appointment in an [ad] agency in San Francisco. And some people told me, 'Every day we heard something about Amélie. "We want the style of Amélie!’...If I could have one dollar for each time...