“How would today’s actors look in the sort of hats once worn by James Stewart, Alan Ladd and John Wayne? If Crowe and Bale are any indication, pretty good.

An action comedy in the kinetic sense. The jokes here aren’t the result of buddy banter or witty one-liners. Instead, they’re the stunts themselves – acrobatic endeavors so deliriously over-the-top that you can’t help but laugh. Clive Owen is in Sin City mode as Mr. Smith, a strong silent type who reluctantly finds himself between

As oppressive and exhausted as the August day this was released in 2007. Actually, the picture feels as if it was made for August, 1999. A still agile Jackie Chan and a still mouthy Chris Tucker team up once again as a pair of mismatched lawmen, but the racial humor and cross-cultural confusion is about

"There is a disconnect that comes with watching Firth – who is usually associated with classy British romantic comedies – anchor something so tacky."

“…a wonderful stand-in for childhood itself, when kids often have adventures involving things only they can see.

“The way that Bourne gets from one place to another with such speed and no obvious source of money makes me wish he was my travel agent.

“…the deep-seated look of absolute fear never leaves Zahn’s red-ringed eyes.

“Distressing flickers of incoherence here and there serve as foreshadowing for the chaotic climax, which doesn’t resemble Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as much as it does The Shining.

"If the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling have often worked as otherworldly echoes of childhood and adolescence … this adaptation does so in a more introspective way than its predecessors."