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

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

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

ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad.