P.S. I Love You (2007)

"In the grief-drenched romantic comedy P.S. I Love You, things are excruciatingly amiss, start to finish."

Palindromes (2005)

"The most misanthropic, depressing, hopeless film in memory."

Panic (2000)

"A defiantly offbeat and accomplished piece with a dream ensemble acting out one man's nightmare."

Paper Clips (2004)

"Touching and inspiring."

Paradise Now (2005)

"With a documentarian's eye and a dramatist's urgency, Abu-Assad sneaks into the mind of a suicide bomber, and also his heart."

Paranormal Activity (2009)

"Peli is to be congratulated for pulling off such an audacious project, but he needs a sharper sense of timing: The film's pacing is uneven, which weakens the suspense."

Paris 36 (2008)

"The nicest that can be said of this unapologetically schmaltzy, and not unenjoyable, affair is that it is the best 1936 musical made in 2009."

Party Monster (2003)

"It's the drunk-guy- at-the-party syndrome: The only one truly entertained by the clown with the lamp shade on his head is the clown with the lamp shade on his head -- or folks similarly inebriated."

Passionada (2003)

"While the situations don't add up to a satisfying film, the characters are pleasing to watch."

Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)

"The film is completely forgettable, frequently funny and weirdly satisfying in a Jersey Loser Gets Respect kind of way."

Pay It Forward (2000)

"It's a pretty nice movie until, like a Ponzi plan, it collapses."

Pearl Harbor (2001)

"A script with the most underdeveloped characters and spectacularly realized visuals since Titanic."

The Perfect Holiday (2007)

"In the annals of Noel films so wincingly, gratingly, insultingly bad that a lump of coal would be vastly preferable, The Perfect Holiday ranks alongside Surviving Christmas for sheer unwatchability."

Perfect Stranger (2007)

"A cheesy affair that casts so many baited lures that they tangle each other and don't hook you."

Persepolis (2007)

"A riveting odyssey in pictures and words. It's unlike any journal you've read or any animated movie you've seen."

Pete Seeger - The Power of Song (2007)

"The Power of Song shows this icon of 20th-century music to be a man of passion and principle, and a true American. An important figure, an important film."

Phoebe In Wonderland (2009)

"Barnz has made a poignant family movie that, despite its thematic material and brief profanity, is appropriate for mature 10-year-olds and older."

The Pianist (2002)

"It is a chilling account, as barren of emotions as a Samuel Beckett play, and yet it is indescribably moving."

Pieces of April (2003)

"For a movie about community and forgiveness, family and grace, Pieces of April is refreshingly unsappy."

Ping Pong (2002)

"A deft, delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph."

The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

"Although comic mayhem follows Martin's Clouseau everywhere, none of it is particularly funny."

Pirate Radio (2009)

"Pirate Radio takes a great story -- the hugely popular offshore radio stations that illegally broadcast pop and rock in 1960s Britain -- and turns it into an aggressively irritating floating frat-party romp."

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

"The Curse of the Black Pearl, this second installment in the promised trilogy (Parts 2 & 3 were shot concurrently) lacks the swash and buckle of the original. And then some."

Planet 51 (2009)

"An uninspired computer-animated feature that may satisfy undiscriminating pipsqueaks and nearly no one else, Planet 51 is a low-IQ E.T. in reverse..."

Play it to the Bone (1999)

"This is no Raging Bull."