“Instead of a noble savage, Depp gives us a comic savage – Willy Wonka with a dead bird on his head.”

“… with its arresting animation, the film gives ideology an urgent and energetic spin.”

“…may contain more valuable debris than the usual action flick, but there is still a troubling unpleasantness to the mess it leaves behind.”

“…a studio product, certainly, but also something that could have grown from one of Smallville’s sun-kissed cornfields.”

“The movie opens on Superman’s home planet of Krypton, and in a sense it never leaves.”

“The African Queen enjoys a good reputation – Bogart took home an Oscar – but it strikes me as a classic folly.”

“…may not be satisfyingly true – at least for purists – to the original Gene Roddenberry television series. But it’s true to good filmmaking, and that’s what matters.”

“A shrug of a film…that has the diminutive stature of a DVD extra.”

“..true to the series in one crucial way: its zen-like commitment to wanton chaos.”

"…much of Zero Dark Thirty works to subvert the gender expectations we might have as an audience."