Marshall Fine

The TIme Traveler's Wife is the movie equivalent of an Oprah book -- full of feeling with just enough ideas to make you think about it (but not too hard).

The "wow" factor in Neill Blomkamp's District 9 is huge -- so much so that it would be easy to overlook what a soulful, tragically heroic story it is.

This is the movie as pure product without soul or inspiration. It was blueprinted rather than created, assembled by drones to be shown to drones, who will walk out of it and, when asked to describe it, drone on.

Flame & Citron is straightforward, brutal and exciting, a gripping tale of men ready for death in the face of unknowable treachery and a vicious enemy.

Amy Irving laughs when asked about her playing the mother -- and not the daughter -- in Max Mayer's Adam. "Yeah, well, life happens," Irving says. "Time goes by."

If there's a problem with Thirst, it's that Park tries to do too many things. Though not completely successful, it's still a bold, wildly juicy film that goes for the throat and never relents.

It would be simple to cynically dismiss Adam as condescendingly feel-good, but that's a lazy reading of a film that is full of heart and wit.

Dori Berinstein's charming film goes beyond the "cute, old people" pigeonhole, creating a story of senior citizens given a chance at something they thought had passed them by.

Never mind the irony of David Byrne singing "Where is my large automobile?" at this particular moment in economic time -- let's talk about cognitive dissonance.

If The Cove were a fiction film, it would be derided as far-fetched. The fact that it's nonfiction doesn't make it any easier to believe because the facts are so disturbing.

O'Day was never a household name in the way Ella Fitzgerald or even Billie Holliday were. Except to jazz fans: she was a stylist and innovator who could transform a song.

He's one of those British comedians whose popularity hasn't quite jumped the pond, as it were, to America. But now, the impishly sly and quick-witted Graham Norton returns with a new game show.

I recognize that Hollywood ran out of original ideas years ago, but I always assumed that you, Johnny Depp, had a little more integrity.

The script itself might as well be the product of random thoughts collected at an open-mike night at a Sacramento comedy club; it has that level of coherence and humor.

Armando Iannucci's new film, In the Loop positively vibrated with Sundance buzz last January. It reaches New York theaters Friday.

It's rare that a movie manages to be both graceful and biting at the same time, let alone smart, funny and sweet. But The Answer Man fills the bill.

Power, as the film hilariously shows, is equal parts perception and bullshit -- and how you wield the latter to shape the former.

Tom, the central character in Webb's directorial debut, isn't just hit by the love hammer - he's pounded into the ground like a tent peg.

Let's just say skip it and leave it at that.

Boaz Yakin's Death in Love is a fascinating mess -- sprawling, passionate, conflicted, confused, contrary. The subject: a family of unhappy, dissatisfied, controlling people in New York.

It's hard to imagine anyone who isn't already engrossed in the Harry Potter series of films deciding, "Oh, gee, I think I'll see the new one -- even though I haven't seen any of the others."

Marc Webb's film is pleasingly offbeat, if inconsistently quirky, as it bounces through time, forward and backward, in the life of this doomed relationship.

This film is as painfully unfunny as any movie this summer, or in recent memory. A chimp could have written this script, if he had screenplay software and a "laugh-free teen comedy" program.

Bruno is still a movie that will make you laugh so hard you'll gasp for breath. The set-up is almost identical to Borat's, but Baron Cohen still finds ways to shock you into guffaws, over and over.

Slinky: A boy discovers that his new toy, a springy coil of metal that mysteriously comes to life, is all he needs to become the greatest secret agent ever.