K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

"Despite its exciting moments, the film is too long."

Kandahar (2001)

"If the dramatics of the movie fail to engage as fully as they should, Kandahar remains fascinating as a piece of lyrical journalism."

Keeping Mum (2006)

"Cheerfully black-hearted and unfailingly amusing."

Kicking and Screaming (2005)

"Crushingly inept family comedy."

Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

"Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is self-indulgent, overwrought, shallow and ridiculous. It is also brilliant, a blast of cinematic lunacy and as much of a guilty pleasure as the schlocky movies Tarantino adores."

Killer of Sheep (1977)

"A film that is hard to forget."

The King is Alive (2001)

"The King Is Alive intrigues mainly for its spare style and brittle, sweat-soaked performances."

The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

"It's almost embarrassing how compelling this film becomes..."

Kingdom Come (2001)

"There are long stretches of dialogue and not a lot of action."

Kinky Boots (2006)

"As long as England keeps exporting these empty-headed little stories about how backward and prudish its populace is, it's difficult for the rest of the world to take the nation's more pressing social concerns seriously."

Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2003)

"In Stine Stengade's intensely engaging performance, Kira is always one step away from the abyss, although, without apparent effort, she manages to hang on."

Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

"The Hollywood action genre, sliding into a lazy dependence on computer-generated fakery, needs this authentic kick to the head delivered by Jet Li."

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)

"A thoroughly satisfying and engaging children's picture that never forgets those kids probably didn't get to the theater by themselves."

The Kite Runner (2007)

"The Kite Runner is earnest and sentimental and formulaic and obvious. Watching it, I could understand the fuss over Khaled Hosseini's bestselling novel, but the film didn't make me want to read it."

A Knight's Tale (2001)

"Strip away its 14th Century trappings and A Knight's Tale is just a Middle Ages Rocky that spares no cliche in its unduly long, 2 1/4 hours."

Kontroll (2005)

"Antal's sense of humor is of the terminally unfunny sort. He trades on tired caricatures, cutesy conceits and infantile gross-outs, and the reasons for Bulcsu's paralyzing angst are left so vague and elliptical, it's difficult to care about him."

Kung Fu Panda (2008)

"The movie has lean, to-the-point simplicity, which is refreshing in an era when so many films take needlessly bloated, talky routes into their story (for more on this, see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)."