It's a potent and moving experience, because by the end you feel you've witnessed nothing less than the birth of a soul.

A marvelous rock doc that manages to be wistful, tasty, and jam-kicking at the same time.

A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America.

With its virtuoso tomfoolery, Fantastic Mr. Fox is like a homegrown Wallace and Gromit caper. To Wes Anderson: More, please!

Lusciously revealing fly-on-the-wall portrait of Anna Wintour.

Along the way, Black Dynamite blends satire, nostalgia, and cinema deconstruction into a one-of-a-kind comedy high.

Toy Story 3 is a salute to the magic of making believe.

Up in the Air is light and dark, hilarious and tragic, romantic and real. It's everything that Hollywood has forgotten how to do; we're blessed that Jason Reitman has remembered

A marvelous and touching yuletide toy of a movie.

Emotionally mesmerizing.

Awesome documentary.

An exhilarating hall-of-mirrors look at what happens when global art fame turns anonymous, artists become objects, fans turn into artists, and the whole what's-sincere-and-what's-a-sham spectacle is more fun than art was ever supposed to be.

She's a teller of hilarious gutbucket truths as surely as Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor ever were. Yet while they were consumed by their demons, Rivers is just the opposite.

The power of The Social Network is that Zuckerberg is a weasel with a mission that can never be dismissed. The movie suggests that he may have built his ambivalence about human connection into Facebook's very DNA. That's what makes him a jerk-hero for our time.

A true-life adventure that turns into a one-man disaster movie - and the darker it gets, the more enthralling it becomes.

Kevin Costner, as Bobby's carpenter brother-in-law, does the finest character acting of his career.

Blue Valentine is lushly touching and gorgeously told.

What it does have is an overwhelming bittersweet melancholy at the passing of life from middle age into…well, you could call it late middle age.

The Wizard of Oz remains the weirdest, scariest, kookiest, most haunting and indelible kid-flick-that's-really-for-adults ever made in Hollywood.

She's an Everywoman you can believe in, showcased in the kind of deft comedy of feminine passion - where deep despair meets Wilson Phillips - that a great many people have been waiting for. Now that Wiig and company have built it, will they come?

The film sweeps us up like a thriller, forcing us to at least ask whether terrorism like the ELF's (which targeted property, never human lives) might ever be justified.

At 88 minutes, Tabloid is short and sweet (it's pure movie candy), but by the end we've forged an emotional connection to Joyce McKinney at the deep core of her unapologetic fearless/nutty valor. And that's what really makes a great tabloid story: It's a vortex that's also a mirror.

Nothing more (or less) than an enchanting light comedy of romantic confusion... It's a movie that understands love because it understands pain.

A marvelous movie.

Merrily outrageous, over-the-top fun.

Another beautifully chiseled piece of filmmaking - sharp, funny, generous, and moving.

Oren Moverman's Rampart is a terrific film: tense, shocking, complex, mesmerizing.

Fincher has made The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo into an electrifying movie by turning the audience into addicts of the forbidden, looking for the sick and twisted things we can't see.