W. (2008)

"You'll be disappointed if you expect famed leftist Oliver Stone to apply a coup de grace to this man. Stone is more interested in examining the conditions that put Bush where he is now and made him the political animal he is."

Waist Deep (2006)

"The dialogue by Curtis-Hall and Darin Scott is a degrading string of profanities and inanities, interspersed with sadism and exploitation of women. Their opinion of their target audience should depress moviegoers of any color."

Walk on Water (2005)

"The picture takes a satisfyingly long time revealing secrets."

A Walk to Remember (2002)

"So few movies explore religion that it's disappointing to see one reduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler."

Wanted (2008)

"Bloodlust aside, the director has remarkable visual ideas and a fine sense of pacing. He blends slow, fast and normal speeds cleverly, making old tricks look new, and does amazing things with cars."

Water (2006)

"In an elemental way ... the film always works."

We Are Marshall (2006)

"This sense of triumph, more palpable because it's true, should touch even the crustiest of cynics."

We Were Soldiers (2002)

"Writer-director Randall Wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew, and his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffic."

Wedding Crashers (2005)

"Two hours isn't always too long for a comedy, but it's certainly too long for this comedy."

The Wedding Planner (2001)

"The screenplay has insurmountable problems."

Welcome to Mooseport (2004)

"The outcome of the election is never in doubt in this fluff, and neither is the dramatic face-off."

What Lies Beneath (2000)

"A picture sufficiently shallow that you'll discover everything that lies beneath it well before the end."

What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)

"These bits of information could have been shocking in about 1940, 1980 and 1990. But by now, Americans who don't know couldn't care less."

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

"It's a blurry vision that comes into focus only intermittently."

White Noise (2005)

"Begins intriguingly and lapses into self-contradictory nonsense."

The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

"Perry makes the slapstick humor work with a limber body and good timing, but he can't do much with the stale jokes."

Wicker Park (2004)

"Depends on coincidences so remote and behavior so improbable that they couldn't take place once in a millennium."

The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)

"Jeff McGrath and Cathy Malkasian direct by staging one action sequence after another: Trains and rhinos and helicopters and SUVs and elephants become indistinguishable, and the few moments of peace are welcome oases in this skein of chases."

Willard (2003)

"If you need to find an actor who'll kiss a rat, comb its fur, weepingly take it to bed as a comforting pal or introduce it to the corpse of his mother, you can't do better than Crispin Glover."

Winged Migration (2003)

"A plotless, gorgeous, barely narrated documentary about birds around the planet, and it gives you perspectives you've never experienced before."

Winter Solstice (2005)

"A small diamond among so much emotional zirconia."

Wonder Boys (2000)

"Wonder Boys will appeal to people who enjoy a picture with a dark sense of humor."

The World Is Not Enough (1999)

"Terrific special effects!"

The World's Fastest Indian (2005)

"The World's Fastest Indian brings a simplified, implausible and often untrue version of a story worth hearing, but I recommend it to anyone who needs proof that people past 60 have dreams, skills and/or sex lives."