Aside from a few arresting visuals, Red Riding Hood is just a slog through the woods.

Peep World barely seems like a movie. Withered and shrunken, it feels even too small for TV.

Big-name star Liam Neeson looks on, trying to add some class to the joint, though even he seems to know it's a losing battle.

Everything he (Nolan) does is forced and overthought, and Inception, far from being his ticket into hall-of-fame greatness, is a very expensive-looking, elephantine film whose myriad so-called complexities -- of both the emotional and intellectual sort -- add up to a kind of ADD tedium.

With Scott Pilgrim, Wright leaps over the line from chattery cleverness to all-out self-consciousness.

The whole exercise has the trying-too-hard vibe of a bad toupee.

It takes too long for the story to come around to the fact that Will is just plain nuts - and even then, he gets over it in a heartbeat.

There's nothing in it to inspire excitement or even a mild glimmer of delight; it's almost offensive in its dullness.

Hits a new low of idiocy and crassness.

Rubber could have been a modest horror novelty, a wicked, malevolent version of "The Red Balloon."

"Piranha 3D" was ridiculous, gory and fun, everything Piranha 3DD is not.

Paranormal Activity 2 sinks much lower than it needs to in order to get a rush out of us - and in the end, the rush isn't even that great. The movie puts us through the paces with minimal payoff.

Skyline is a piece of junk, even in a movie climate littered with expensive - though sometimes fun - junkiness.