Comedy Rated R
“Reilly has an absolute sincerity – especially in the many musical numbers – that’s essential for something this goofy.
Drama Rated R
“If Coppola had started his career with this sort of mush, we might never have gotten Apocalypse Now or The Godfather.
“Writer-director Tamara Jenkins … allows the movie its real-life bitterness without pushing it over into despair.
Drama Rated PG-13
“…enough to make you hope that one of these days Washington will forgo such conventional genre trappings and unleash his own Do the Right Thing.
Action/Adventure Rated PG
“Etel … has a wonderful face for the movies – it’s as shiny as a kid’s could be, yet also somehow tinged with darkness, as if he’s busy processing adult concerns.
“There is only one way this could possibly have been entertaining: if Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman had switched roles.
Horror Rated R
“Of all the fright flicks that came out in the last 12 months, this is the one that made us hardened critics in the screening room literally jump in our seats.
“Some situations may be too tied to contemporary reality to receive a fairy-tale touch. It’s fair to say the illegal immigrant experience is one of them.
Drama Rated PG
“If you’ve worked your way through every slushy, sentimental Christmas movie offered by the Hallmark Channel and are still able to keep your breakfast down, you might want to head to a theater to see this.
“Cusack … makes such a scene not showing off that he’s distracting.
