$9.99 (2009)

"Using the medium of Wallace and Gromit and Gumby, Israeli filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal turns her clay figures into real people in $9.99, a wise, wistful study of hope and dread."

10,000 B.C. (2008)

"Would that Emmerich took as much care with his human characters as with inanimate objects and CGI animals."

102 Dalmatians (2000)

"Amiable, undemanding family holiday entertainment."

12 (2007)

"Full of passion and speechifying, 12 is unmistakably Russian in spirit and sensibility, but its themes are universal at their core."

13 Going on 30 (2004)

"Garner is a delight, a completely accessible personality in completely forbidding clothes."

The 13th Floor (1999)

"The roles are underwritten and, especially in D'Onofrio's case, overacted."

15 Minutes (2001)

"Less the blistering satire it imagines itself than a blustering, bloody, blundering melodrama."

17 Again (2009)

"For me, 17 Again is mildly diverting. For the tweens who are its target audience, Efron's outside shot is a three-pointer."

2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

"The pic is closer to the PlayStation experience of Gran Turismo than to a movie. This is not to say that it isn't fun, only to say that it is more about sensation than sense."

2046 (2005)

"It's all terribly atmospheric, and if you're in the mood for atmosphere, 2046 delivers."

21 Grams (2003)

"Challenges and provokes in unexpected ways."

25th Hour (2002)

"It could have been more taut, could have been harder, but 25th Hour still resonates with power and poetry."

28 Days Later (2003)

"Deftly directed by Danny Boyle and scripted by novelist Alex Garland, 28 Days Later is seat-squirming, hands-over-the-eyes stuff."

3-Iron (2005)

"A mesmerizing, offbeat, violent, playful yet serious parable."

300 (2007)

"300 is one breathtaking digi-tableau after another. But the dialogue is a joke, the performances have more to do with bodybuilding than character, and the lesson that the film imparts isn't anything to do with courage and military skill."

35 Shots of Rum (2009)

"35 Shots of Rum is visual poetry, but poetry that examines the human condition with insight and illumination."

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)

"The absolute clarity of the storytelling, the aching authenticity of the performances make for a film that will stay with you for at least as long as the period alluded to in its title. It might stay with you forever."

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)

"A bracingly coarse, surprisingly tender movie."

500 Days of Summer (2009)

"An engagingly breezy tale about a guy with a broken heart and the girl who broke it."

The 6th Day (2000)

"There's no doubt that the formula for this kind of action film is showing its age."

8 Women (2002)

"8 Women may not plumb the depths of the female psyche, but it's stylish and frivolous in the most profound ways."

9 (2009)

"Acker, whose gifts for mood, design, and character design are impressive enough to have attracted Tim Burton as a producer, is more of an artist than a storyteller."