question: Occasionally funny, but little more than a jumbled, overextended episode of the TV show. Still, Candy devotees won't be disappointed.

numbered reviews: 1. Certainly the first 30 minutes of this film are among the most hilarious first 30 minutes of any film. Pity it couldn't last.
2. Diehards will rejoice, while haters will probably not be converted.
3. Absolutely hilarious ... at first. Then the story kicks in.
4. Inspired jokes run neck-and-neck with flat ones. Still, the faux 'instructive' tone (full of ostensible life lessons that couldn't be more amoral) and rack of offbeat characterizations keeps things diverting.
5. At once wholly silly and delectably bizarre.
6. like that After School Special some of us were secretly hoping would happen one day . . where it all goes horribly wrong in delightfully interesting ways instead of sticking to the moral high ground with a prissy and predictable moral lesson to be learned
7. If you loved Amy Sedaris before in a golfer-lady wig and inbred chump's grin, you'll maybe love her again here, while wishing she had another TV-episode-size venue for her talents.
8. Like the classic comedies of Chaplin, Hawks and Woody Allen, Strangers With Candy is more than just a good subjective comedy -- it's a great objective film.
9. [T]here's demented, and then there's the plain sick and twisted tastlessness and hilarious audacity of this afterschool special gone horribly, wonderfully wrong.
10. Whether you guffaw, giggle or sit stone-faced through Strangers With Candy will depend on your reaction to Sedaris as Jerri and her freak show of over-the-top bad taste.


question: Not quite as good as the original and has some dark subject material that might not be appropriate for children.

numbered reviews: 1. Laden with more useless pork than a congressional bill.
2. ...a completely new experience for the audience and the film's characters, and virtually, one of the best sequels that has ever come along in the past decade.
3. Where Babe was warm, gentle, and cuddly, Pig in the City is fast paced and antic.
4. (Imagine the mouse chorus) "A Disappointing Nightmare"
5. Miller's confident, technically astounding direction produces challenging ideas at every turn.
6. BABE has all but lost its bearings.
7. It's a nice change of pace to find a sequel that doesn't merely try to remake the original, but Babe: Pig in the City lacks any of the original's endearing gentle spirit.
8. A sequel that lacks the quiet beauty and subtlety of the original!
9. This dark sequel to the 1995 hit has virtually none of the bucolic charm displayed in the original.
10. This film may scar impressionable children for life!


question: Knowing has some interesting ideas and a couple good scenes, but it's weighted down by its absurd plot and over-seriousness.

numbered reviews: 1. ... starts off as director Alex Proyas's take on "Final Destination" before going all "Close Encounters" on us. If only we hadn't seen it all before.
2. A broad, leisurely jumble of Alfred Hitchcock-style suspense architecture and a dreary, paint-by-numbers Sci-Fi Channel Original, Knowing only seems to extract two reactions: nail-biting and eye-rolling.
3. It's a folly and a failure, but an intriguing one - an ambitious vision from a tremendous filmmaker that, sadly, had too much going on with not enough to say.
4. Knowing is about faith; the belief that one day the mysteries of the universe will be explained to us, and the knowledge that anything is possible.
5. A slog through lazy writing, indifferent acting and blase direction with no hope of anything but chaotic violence as reward.
6. Alex Proyas has gone all out on a film which, unfortunately, will be seen by many as an interesting experiment gone awry, rather than the sci-fi masterpiece it aspires to be.
7. A shotgun spray of metaphysics, cosmology, the Old Testament, flying saucers, angels, spooky blonde-haired men in black trench coats, mysterious little black rocks, two cute kids and a moose on fire.
8. A damned entertaining movie despite the fact that it stars Nicholas Cage.
9. If those space-dudes are so friendly, why drive children insane with a bunch of weird code? Why not just show up on The Tonight Show and tell everybody the exact date and time? Lame! Also: Why fake Massachusetts? Why not just say: 'This is Australia.'
10. Suffice it to say that the last third is a mélange of Close Encounters and Christian eschatology, and you'll wish the film had stopped about 15 minutes sooner.


question: Bold, timely, subversive, and above all funny, M*A*S*H remains a high point in Robert Altman's distinguished filmography.

numbered reviews:
1. I can only be grateful to whomever was the brilliant producer who saw the potential for one of the best-loved series within this mess of dullness and mean-spirited randomness.
2. If you're among the TV show's multitude of fans but don't know much about its progenitor, you may be surprised at how much edgier and daring the dark movie comedy is.
3. Remains as sharp and fresh and relevant as it was on the day of its initial release.
4. Before ... the next war, both sides need to hire Altman as the director. He knows the territory, works with ensemble casts better than anyone, and provides plenty of laughs.
5. I always enjoy the movie when I watch it, but it will never hold anywhere near the same place in my heart or my memories as the long-running series.
6. Weird feelings watching this flick. It's like funny, but after ten years of watching Alan Alda's TV series... it's kind of negated the impact.
7. Altman's black comedy perfectly expressed the anarchic, rebellious spirit of the 1970s with its blistering anti-war message and contempt for authority.
8. Rollicking, biting, satirical classic is so 1970.
9. [VIDEO ESSAY] "M*A*S*H" ruthlessly satirizes the hypocritical U.S. military, and de facto the U.S. Government, for its systemic hypocrisies and arbitrary means of doling out Draconian punishments to friends and foe alike.
10. The quality of this acerbic study of life in a Korean War field hospital has been too often overlooked because of the popularity of the TV series it spawned.