Could be improved by shortening certain acts (i.e. the ones featuring monkey-people). The gravity defying shots are intense and baffling- how did he do that?! Beautiful space scenery. Confusing ending.

I love this film's meta-ness: Woody Allen is not afraid to break down the fourth wall and talk directly to his audience, to pull hypothetical conversations and scenarios into an artificial reality. Diane Keaton rocks.

Sometimes beautiful, more often grotesque. Counterposes idylic jungle villagers with (literally) sharp-edged metropolitans. A film of length striving for grandeur. No clear message. Shallow characters.

This film is both sexy and sad. Knightley and McAvoy, portray a war-torn, love-lorn lass and lad in a brief but burning relationship. Moments of beautiful grace as well as terrific gore. Creative score transforms the typewriter into an instrument.

Quaint, rural home life is pitted against late-80s metropolitan modernism in this Tim Burton classic. Masterful models and sets. Great make-up. Sardonic spin on the afterlife. Danny Elfman's score is creepy cool.

Great costume design, a plot that makes you go "hmm," horror house monsters with wiggly rubber toes, a neon bonanza with non-sequiturs galore. Centers on anti-hero and ends with an anti-climax. Vampire movie.

Try not to get this show's theme song stuck in your head - I DARE you! Takes a bit of getting used to, but worth the viewing once your humor-meter has adjusted. Percy & King Harry (a human nutcracker) are my personal favorites.

Director's Cut: Ridley Scott LOVES sparkles and makeup: Bladerunner has lots of both. Scott revisits the Heaven and Hell theme. Film noir meets the 80s. Vangelis' music dominates the film so much, it becomes a character.

Super chic Faye Dunaway and metrosexual Warren Beatty are gun-slinging youngangsters with (surpisingly) zero sex appeal. They feel more like Barbie and Ken than Bonnie and Clyde. A good sad show on how crime doesn't pay.

Season One: What's not to like about High School kids given inordinate doses of sarcasm and wit to make them appealing! This serial is wrought with puns a'plenty and mysticism capable of enlivening the most numbed imagination. Season Three: Angel-Buffy sappy puppy-eyed love is not what made me like Season Three;...continued

Murray's 'nam vet character is this movie's only saving grace. Dangerfield plays an uncomfortable, unlikeable gauche clown. All other characters are off-base and/or overexposed (sometimes literally).

A wild west movie set in Morocco! Bandits of all stripes (and chevrons) inhabit this complex war era classic. Quality dialogue, cinematography. S.Z. Sakall & Sydney Greenstreet continue to impress.

Daniel Craig was born to play Bond: a maverick bucking stallion. With unattainably lavish lifestyles, this movie is a visual vacation. Every character is brimming with confidence and sex appeal, even Judi Dench.

Three women, 49 haircolors, 256 outfits and half of a plot! This movie is equally dumb and cute as the Angels themselves, with cliche costumes, roles and lines a plenty. See it for Billy Murray and booty.

Top-rate claymation of humanized-chickens and rats and a mess of mechanical gizmos and machinery. Practically a re-telling of "The Animal Farm" except with a capitalist ("pig") antagonist. Fun word play.

An extended romantic sit-com. A desirable, metropolitan play-girl finds love even though she can't cook and is a bald-faced, two-timing liar (OMG!). Completely unbelievable in every (good) way. Great archetypal casting.

The most entertaining part to this movie (flooded with bad actors) is the opening scene: Arnold's a lumberjack and that's OK! And what "bad guy" Bennet lacks in muscles, he makes up in...well, nothing.

Crash claims to tear down walls between socioeconomically, racially, culturally different people. Instead it reinforces prejudices and stereotypes by depicting gangbangers, cops, high-strung housewives et al in 2D.

2004: Just thinking about this movie gives me the heebiejeebies. A top-notch re-make with a style of its own. Some tacky bits, but overall, a believable conceptualization of a world run amok with zombies. Ggahhrrrrrr!

This feature showcases grating ambient noises, lengthy scenes of people appearing to suffer from excruciating constipation and a misogynist with Kramer hair. Rent this for the David Lynch director's interview only.

Very cool period piece with great sets and gruesome details. Features prostitutes with cliche hearts of gold. Ian Holm practically steals the show from Johnny Depp with his fascinating creepiness. Unfortunate cheesy ending.

Very cool cinematography makes this 80's classic more enjoyable than the plot ever could. Bad-ass villain in S&M gear. Great scene of chicken violence. Mediocre acting talent. Queen Soundtrack?

This film embodies the essence of film as an art form. You may not agree with the politics of this film, but if you sit back and enjoy the cinematography, you may find this is an unexpected favorite.

Creepy doesn't begin to explain it...Jesus Camp shows only a tiny sliver of extremist evangelism and leaves you guessing at what the whole might actually look like. Lacks depth and coherent narrative.

Fantastic shots that make you wonder how nobody was killed in the making. Cheesy simulated computer programs (in IMAX?) Never make scientists act. DVD features interesting behind the scenes short.

Uncomfortable cast, laughable dialog and a flat score. Buried by excessive screaming war scenes that contribute little to the plot. Wonderful costumes and make-up (especially Merlin's). Great potential, yet bad.

Strange narration and awkward "Rastafarian" segments make this less of a film than it could be. A superficial examination of the politics and policies that lead to Jamaica's debt to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Little Miss Sunshine features a family of under-achieving characters you love to hate and a lascivious addict grandpa you hate to love. An underdog story of traveling losers who win by connecting through their losses. Yay?

Spectacular visual adventure: Hear things you thought were silent, see things as you never can in life. Join the ranks of squirmy worms, bees and ants. You can practically taste the nectar and feel the dew.

Honesty lies in the folds of deceit. Deeply ironic and densely woven with dark humor. Heavyweight cast makes this vivid depiction of the television news industry reek of sweat, blood and tears. Memorable scenes and lines.

Makes you love despicable archetypes. Every working-world character, setting or prop this movie portrays is boiled down to a surreally simplistic example. Gives preschoolers nightmares about work.

A yin and yang of beauty and brutality. You can easily lose yourself in the world of Pan's Labyrinth which flows though plots and subplots of Ofelia, the young heroine. Filled with amazing and memorable scenes.

Dead Man's Chest: Resonating creepy imagery, great score and fun performances (as expected) by arm-flailing Johnny Depp, subtle Mr. Nighy, Mackenzie Crook and a shamaness who looks like she got into the black jelly beans.

This under-dog movie is deliciously light-hearted and creative. Trots a fine line between criticizing excessive plebeianism and inordinate snobbery. Great visual depiction of what taste looks like.

This movie may have predicted the mass appeal of voyeuristic "reality television" shows. Fantastic play-like set design. Inventive transitions to infer the passage of time. Interesting side- and subplots keep things lively.

This movie brings new meaning to the term "gag reel." Save your money and time for a decent stage production. Burton's Sweeney Todd is more an adaptation of an al-Qiada beheading video than the Broadway musical.

Special Edition: Featuring characters with Dewey-decimal names donning unisex shaved heads and white scrubs in a drugged-out nuclear wasteland. White white everywhere-except the one black dude who's really only a hologram. Hmmm.

This movie stretches towards moments of extreme profanity, while retaining a sense of quaint innocence. Great cast all 'round. Plays with virginity and materialism interchangeably in existential terms.

This film spends nearly three hours in a futile attempt to reinvent "Pride" as a virtue rather than a sin. Death and carnage 1957-style. Interesting for its historical value. Prepare yourself for a frustrating ending.

Since when is Bruce Wayne a scuzzy playboy with loads of cash, time and women to burn? What's with the ballerinas? The new batsuit makes Christian Bale talk like a nose-plugged scuba diver. Two Face's new face is a bit omg. Most romantic depiction of death by explosion - who...continued

The only possible redeeming quality for this movie is that it makes fer a rootin' tootin' foundation for a good ol' drinkin' game. WOO-eee! Neat car tricks. Jessica Simpson practically becomes a trick herself.

This mock film noir/dragnet classic is loaded with a buffet of comedy style: from old-school slap stick gags to high-brow tongue-in-cheek quips. Bonus: O.J. Simpson gets beat up throughout - Justice!

A storyline you've seen/heard/read a million times. A period piece which uses costumes, music and sets to nicely convey the American 1950s. Very neurotic female main character with problems of the elite.

A wonderful blend of hand-drawn and computer animation. An epic tale of a loyal boy's grandmother and dog. Bittersweet depictions of the modernization of Paris and growing up. Almost completely silent except for a very conspicuous soundtrack. High parody of the U.S.

I LOVE Val Kilmer in this. It touches on contemporary issues (Chinese labor, opium/drug additions, women suffrage/rights, etc.) which adds fullness to an otherwise straightforward plot/characters.

I couldn't help but space out and think about other things while watching this. It was an arduous 167 minutes of "action packed" agony. Over commercialized with profligate product placements. Gag!

Tron touches on moments of stylistic genius: abstract close-ups of black-and-white-filmed faces dolled-up in day-glo fantasy. A fun take on the "lives" of computer programs. Infantile plot and dialogue.

Interesting interpretation and blending of historical fact and literary fiction. Bloom is an annoying wimp in an unbelievable romance with Kruger's Helen. Creepy King Kong love between Pitt and Polydora.

2004: Seems this movie's budget and energy was spent entirely on an all-star cast, beautiful set designs, on-site filming and intricate costumes, leaving nothing for content. A poor comparison to BBC's rendition.

Alfred Hitchcock's creative use of light, color and special effects all swirl together to make this a must-see for any movie lover. An unsettling murder-mystery entwined with perverted obsession. Pairs well with Bernard Herrmann's score.

A very clever film on the rise and fall of the electric car. It attempts due diligence to research all the usual suspects and profiles oil companies, the government, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), consumers, etc. A bit California-centered.

Season One: The merit of the first season of Will & Grace is its ability to not take itself too seriously. It spans I <3 Lucy like sit-com, slap-stick, quick wit and punning and is the closest to "smart humor" television may have ever gotten.