For all his faults it's impossible to dislike Blake.

You could fill a hall of fame with the blues musicians who lived in the Maxwell Street area, including Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Little Walter to name just a few. Cheat You Fair is narrated by former Chicagoan Joe Mantegna and features interviews with a wide cast of citizens from Studs Terkel to Buddy Guy to Dan Ackroyd.

Much of the film is narrated with voiceover reflecting the character's thoughts and feelings, which achieves a poetic quality absent in the spoken dialogue.

The problem with movies like this is that if you've seen the trailer, you've seen the whole film.

Director Miguel Arteta handles the absurd story and events expertly.

While the film is not entirely successful, it certainly qualifies as a glorious mess of a failure.

Almodóvar's lackluster films all have things in common.

A movie can be overstuffed and frenzied but still entertaining.

It's Complicated isn't really all that complicated, but it's fun.

In a career-worst performance, Daniel Day-Lewis plays Guido Contini who is making a film with no plot.

There's so much to enjoy in The Young Victoria that it's worth overlooking the occasionally clunky screenplay.

Avatar resembles a commercial for a videogame. A bad one.

Lacking an interesting story to tell, the film falls back on that favorite of lazy writers everywhere: namedropping.