question: A moving film with moments of humor, Liberty Heights succeeds in capturing the feel of the '50s with great performances and sensitive direction.

numbered reviews: 1. Both epic and intimate, taking on a large cast of characters while focusing quietly on the details of their lives.
2. Writer-director Barry Levinson brings it all back home to Baltimore and delivers his funniest and most heartfelt film since Diner.
3. Nostalgia is a tricky thing, but Levinson manages to strike just the right balance of humor, affection, and candor.
4. Lovingly crafted.
5. A grand slam!
6. A pretty brave and ambitious feat.
7. Excellent re-creation of the clothing and landmarks of Baltimore in the 1950s.
8. Liberty Heights is worth a look, with its rich characters and dialogue, and its gorgeous cinematography by Chris Doyle.
9. Offers a deeper immersion in that old '50s feeling than any other Hollywood film in recent memory.
10. Coming to terms with "the other" (whether stranger, enemy, or alien) is as critical to the development of soul now as it was in the 1950s.


question: A potent and lithely constructed documentary about America's financial crisis, I.O.U.S.A grabs you with figures but holds you with irreverent wit.

numbered reviews: 1. Think of this important documentary as Economics 101, a primer on how America and Americans spend, and what hardships the future holds for us unless we change the pattern and our habits quickly.
2. Well made, informative and genuinely terrifying documentary, in which the use of humour can't quite diminish the spectre of doom and gloom.
3. If more people had watched this film, they might still have their houses.
4. Bottom line: The party's over. There's no such thing as a free lunch. America itself may be a bubble.
5. I.O.U.S.A manages to keep this dense, dry information dynamic enough to be interesting and terrifying enough to be important.
6. Fending off the global repo man
7. Practically begs audiences to declaim it essential viewing, rather than quietly convincing us
8. For a film starring the national debt, this is a good one. The expected tedious numerical research is accompanied by excellent graphics and archival footage that bring it alive. Is anyone listening?
9. Its aim is to raise awareness of an impending financial disaster if America continues acting fiscally and morally irresponsible.
10. If you believe the terrifying documentary I.O.U.S.A., America is headed for a financial crisis of monumental proportions - and apparently, we are probably too late to keep it from happening.


question: The Last Mimzy makes efforts to be a fun children's movie, but unsuccessfully juggles too many genres and subplots -- eventually settling as an unfocused, slightly dull affair.

numbered reviews: 1. It dumbs down sci fi cliché in hopes of reaching a child audience, creating a false sense of wonder.
2. Once or twice a year, I just go nuts about a movie. It's all I think about. It occupies my mind because I'm so delighted with it. I imagine that I detect references to its themes everywhere I go. This is that movie for 2007.
3. Mimzy, whose charmingly retro FX date to around 1985, won't post Peter Jackson figures at the box office, but you can't say that Shaye doesn't have the magic touch.
4. Lumpy and misshapen like a dilapidated stuffed animal, The Last Mimzy is a kids movie that wants to be this generation's E.T. but doesn't know how to get there.
5. A reasonably engaging movie filled with fun visual effects and an appealing tone reminiscent of a certain Spielberg movie about an out-of-his-element extraterrestrial.
6. There are too many distracting elements to allow a viewer total immersion in the story.
7. This film should be enjoyable enough for children, but will perhaps be not quite enough to enthuse their parents
8. As the film builds to its nail-biting conclusion, the children will have connected with the War on Terror and foreign philosophical belief systems in the interest of mankind's salvation.
9. The script runs through the clichéd paces..., but with enough good humor and warmth to make this trip worth the ride.
10. Better than expected orthodox, New Age (R) prosthetizing.


question: This multi-character drama balances intimate portrayals and broad political implications to paint a bracing and moving portrait of the Middle East conflict.

numbered reviews:
1. It has a complex, elliptical structure that uses unconventional filming techniques to tell a bleak and fatalistic story conveyed with an unnerving sense of verisimilitude.
2. Good intentions are one thing, of course, and good writing and filmmaking another. Ajami is lucky to have all three.
3. Ajami brings its audience into a world where the cultural conflict is fierce, emotions run high, yet the hopeful vision of peaceful coexistence shines through the cracks.
4. Observing the ominous nature of violence and its crushing aftermath, Ajami is a striking raw nerve of a feature film, holding to a steady path of dread, but keeping the story on its toes by jolting back and forth through locations and time.
5. A brutally honest, harrowing and provocative glimpse into the cycle of violence in the Middle East.
6. Extraordinarily accomplished and deeply provocative, the film's appeal among sophisticated filmgoers should remain strong throughout Oscar season and beyond.
7. Hollywood [may]think that Ajami is making a political statement... given the partnership of the directors. Unfortunately, it's not enough to make this a memorable film.
8. This is vividly challenging, utterly inclusive and heartfelt cinema. It's not only gripping to watch, but it'll open your eyes to the intractable human conundrums behind the blood-stained headlines.
9. The specifics of the plot in Ajami aren't as important as the impact of many sad moments that build up one after another. Hatred is like the weather. You don't agree with the rain but still you get wet.
10. Shani and Copti (who costars as a hipster druggie) elicit moving performances from their nonprofessional actors, who ground the somewhat breathless action in a streetwise realism.