The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads.

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.

Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.

The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.