Depressing and gut-wrenching, but always powerful and gripping.

Like the best French cuisine, Ratatouille is ambitious and delightful.

The film owes much of its success to the inspired pairing of Fincher and Sorkin.

While this decade-long look at the inner workings of the CIA is intriguing, the movie would have benefited by more character development and additional editing.

Sophisticated and universal yet deeply intimate, A Separation is an exquisitely conceived family drama that has the coiled power of a top-notch thriller.

Bittersweet, intelligently written, deftly acted and painfully honest.

Director Hayao Miyazaki treats his audience as imaginative and intelligent human beings, rather than catering to kids with rote displays of silliness, stunts and scares.

Both a psychological portrait and an exciting action film.

At once futuristic, funny and fantastical.

As good as each individual movie is, the third film vaults the work into the stratosphere of classic movies. Key characters are enhanced, new civilizations visited and battles fought more intensely, while feelings and motivations are plumbed more deeply and movingly.

Sarah Polley's memoir is a poignant, funny and engrossing film, challenging our notions of memory and family mythology.

Whereas the book was lyrical and moving, the movie is surrealistic and inventive.

The Class is a deeply moving film about the challenges of educating children in a complex and often turbulent world.

A searingly intense and artful tale that grabs hold of the viewer from its jarring and wordless opening scenes and doesn't let go.

Rings has moments of edge-of-the-seat excitement, too, such as when the dark riders come looking for Frodo. But it's occasionally tedious when it should be captivating.

This installment, the best of the three, is everything a movie should be: hilarious, touching, exciting and clever.

Both a nostalgic throwback to the silent-picture era and an ultra-modern animated tale, the slyly humorous Triplets of Belleville is artful, engrossing and oddly touching.

The Queen is the kind of thought-provoking, well-written and savvy film that discerning filmgoers long for but rarely get.

This is a powerful, poignant and provocative film, told in an unconventional and effective fashion.

The Coen brothers have fashioned a wry and riveting hybrid of a drama, Western, crime thriller and action film that is as powerful and thought-provoking as it is genre-bending.

A compelling piece of naturalistic filmmaking, claustrophobic and thought-provoking.

Every so often a film gets under our skin with its haunting authenticity, reinforcing our faith in the wonderfully transporting power of cinematic storytelling. Winter's Bone is unquestionably that film.

The most gorgeous of all the Pixar films — which include "Toy Story" 1 and 2, "A Bug's Life" and "Monsters, Inc." —Nemo treats family audiences to a sweet, resonant story and breathtaking visuals.

One of the year's most clever and visually arresting computer-animated films, enlivened by a well-developed and credible cast of characters who just happen to be superheroes.

An unflinching, powerfully visceral and haunting portrait of the tragic events aboard one of the terrorist-commandeered flights on the fateful morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

Cinematic poetry in black and white. It also is a deeply affecting tale of the power of resilience and an unflagging sense of humor through the worst of situations

A thoroughly compelling political thriller, at once intellectually challenging and profoundly emotional.

Borat is most gloriously funny moving picture for to make people see their stupidness.