The lack of effort is evident in everything from the feeble attempts to update the script to some notably out-of-focus shots inexplicably left in the final cut.

Director Michael Bay is known for big, dumb action movies. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen may just be his biggest, dumbest movie yet.

The way the food industry works in America is making animals suffer, farmers poor, corporations rich, and everyone sick and fat.

The best part of the movie, by far, is the cast.

There are several problems with the film, and at the top of that list is the main characters' seeming lack of interest in most of the things that happen to them.

None of Atom Egoyan's efforts that followed came close to matching The Sweet Hereafter's brilliance.

American Harmony is the Pumping Iron of barbershop quartet singing.

What's next, a documentary in which O.J. Simpson is once again made out to be a hero?

While Easy Virtue looks the part of a roaring '20s romp, it fails on several levels.

The most credit in the movie has to be given to John Travolta, who brings so many wonderful layers to his performance.

There is a lot to admire in The Hangover; aside from having a lot of good laughs, its structure is novel and lends itself to surprises.

Land of the Lost is a lowbrow take on time travel and alternate realities, based loosely on the cheesy old TV show.

There's very little magic for most of the 95 minutes of this film—just a succession of stock situations and characters leading to a plot resolution which was obvious almost from the start.

Lemon Tree is an allegory of Israeli-Palestinian relations, and as such is loaded with symbolism.

Little Ashes wants to be a romance, political drama and coming-of-age story, all rolled into one.

Sam Raimi does a terrific job of keeping the audience scared while also interspersing plenty of absurdity.

The film is particularly worth seeing for the unprecedented view it offers of the casting process for a Broadway musical.

This is the first Pixar movie that features real, modern humans as its main characters, and you can tell the animators put a lot of work into making them not seem too cartoony.

While The Girlfriend Experience is a fairly experimental film and should be treated as such, it does have some insights into the life and character of a call girl.

Gigantic gets by a lot longer than it should on the charms of its two leads.