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.

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.

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

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.

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