P.S. Your Cat is Dead! (2002)

"Canned theater."

Paid in Full (2002)

"Harris is supposed to be the star of the story, but comes across as pretty dull and wooden."

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

"Pan's Labyrinth, like del Toro's previous and related The Devil's Backbone, is a saturated vision, an artist's work. What it lacks is successful unity."

Paprika (2007)

"Paprika is a fertile delta of forms and colors, wildly inventive, shape-shifting, jiggly with fat jokes."

Paranoid Park (2008)

"Paranoid Park is only 84 minutes, a long, slow 84 minutes, with delusions of grandeur."

The Passenger (1975)

"Here is Nicholson's classic, post-Mitchum cool, but humanly exposed, providing the star punch in Antonioni's pensive dreamscapes."

Passionada (2003)

"Some of it is pedestrian, much is predictable."

The Patriot (2000)

"It pummels history into a series of rousing or disgusting moments."

Pay It Forward (2000)

"Has cute, amusing moments and is good-looking for a Vegas picture. Still, it's a squish."

Peaceful Warrior (2006)

"A gift-box filming of former gymnastics star Dan Millman's uplift book, Peaceful Warrior stars appealing Scott Mechlowicz (like a more ripped Tony Perkins) as Millman, finding his way to glory after a drastic injury."

Penelope (2008)

"Penelope is an odd concoction -- a witch's gentle brew of modern-day fairy tale, feather-light romance and slapstick comedy. It's not a knockout potion, but it goes down smoothly and is harmless enough to serve to the kids."

The Perfect Holiday (2007)

"The cast is game, the script is watered nog, the kids push their charm hard, Murphy is often excruciating, Union is pleasant in a sitcom mommy way, and Lance Rivera is a zero stylist."

The Perfect Score (2004)

"Seems meant for people who never placed higher than 600 on their SATs. For whom, in fact, Einstein is a bagel."

Perfect Stranger (2007)

"A Halle Berry-Bruce Willis vehicle fresh as a Commodore 64."

Persepolis (2007)

"Persepolis feels abstract, never deeply personal, because Satrapi offers only surfaces and push-pin thoughts while sharing here sincere but glib sisterhood with Iranian history."

Peter Pan (2003)

"For kids, the movie is a sure thing."

The Pianist (2002)

"By combining the persistence of things -- and so many perishable lives -- with the mellifluousness of Chopin, Polanski gets from an excellent cast and a strong script his grave witness to the agonies of the Jews and his native land."

Pineapple Express (2008)

"The movie is a chaotic mess, but, munchies in hand, go with it."

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

"The third film is a startling cascade of climaxes, too long, but to complain about excess in such an exuberant bonanza is like complaining that Gibraltar has too much rock."

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

"The only special effect Pirates of the Caribbean needed was the eyeliner beneath the unsteady eyes of Johnny Depp."

Planet of the Apes (2001)

"Though often swank, it might be too harsh and clammy to be a natural high, unless you're deep into species masochism."

Pleasantville (1998)

"A brilliant comedy!"

Pokémon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back (1999)

"The problem is not the violence, the standard abrasion static found in video games and juvenile TV. It is the lack of ideas, the paucity of story flow and dramatic imagination, the sterile, vacuum-packed cartooning 'directed' by Kunihiko Yuyama."

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001)

"Porn Star is destined someday to double-bill with Sex: The Annabel Chong Story."

Possession (2002)

"A gorgeously romantic film of A.S. Byatt's much esteemed novel."