question: Visually arresting, but the story could be told with a bit more energy.

numbered reviews: 1. An extraordinary embodiment of the period, [Johansson] looks to have stepped right into a Vermeer frame.
2. To earn its props, a period film must resonate in our time. A movie about art doubles that demand. Webber has delivered the goods and then some.
3. Those who enjoyed the novel will find little of substance changed.
4. A devoutly painterly movie.
5. The picture is simply ravishing, but at times it falls prey to its own contemplations.
6. Every once in a while a film comes along that is so gorgeous to look at that other considerations pale in importance.
7. Girl With a Pearl Earring brilliantly captures the texture of ordinary life.
8. Beautifully lit, designed and photographed, it is, like much of the Dutch master's work, more to be admired than emotionally embraced.
9. Girl With A Pearl Earring is one of those quiet, restrained films that softly haunts the viewer for weeks afterward. It won't knock you over, but it won't soon leave you either.
10. This is very rich fare.


question: This cult favorite is a quirky coming of age story, with fine, off-kilter performances from Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray.

numbered reviews: 1. One of the freshest, richest, most original films to come out of Hollywood in a very long time.
2. Bill Murray projects a seriocomic intensity here comparable to Charlie Chaplin's classic Little Tramp.
3. Bill Murray -- playing a depressed millionaire -- steals every scene in this quirky, edgy and very funny tale of an outsider who just might end up leading all those who laugh at him.
4. Rushmore is accurate enough on the teen-angst front to make you wince, yet whimsical enough to make you want Max to win.
5. An inspired second feature from director Wes Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson, the picture shares the offbeat rhythms and disarming humor of their overlooked debut, Bottle Rocket.
6. The hint of genuine pathos [Murray] brings to Rushmore tempers Schwartzman's brash, sometimes off-putting antics, gracing an already great comedy with surprising depth and heart.
7. It's somehow fitting that in this Maxcentric universe, Rushmore exists as a satirical comedy, full of dry wit and adolescent absurdities, and a bittersweet valentine to manipulative misfits who actually find the love they deserve.
8. There's a danger of overselling Anderson's sweet-hearted, loony little fantasy, but everything -- from the soundtrack of '60s Brit bands with their jangly anthems of angsty love to Robert Yeoman's slightly hyper-real photography -- fits perfectly.
9. Rushmore may have shades of J.D. Salinger's writing and Hal Ashby's movies, but Wes Anderson pulls humor from the trickiest of situations and always manages to surprise.
10. Probably of more interest to adults than to teens.


question: More than a documentary about the oldest Mardi Gras celebration in the south, Order of Myths encompasses the eccentric characters of Mobile and the still-lingering racial tensions that surround them.

numbered reviews: 1. Ostensibly about Mobile, Alabama's annual Mardi Gras tradition, which dates back to 1703, Margaret Brown's documentary is actually an examination of the racial divide in a city that claims there is none.
2. On both sides of the Mobile Mardi Gras divide, people seem to be edging toward a desire for reconciliation, but there remain significant differences about what that might entail.
3. Engrossing if discomfiting.
4. The cast of characters trailed by the crew is a compelling batch.
5. An invaluable portrait of us-and-them America, a smart, generous, poignant, quietly disturbing movie about secrecy and hospitality.
6. Entertaining and provocative.
7. Less a vitriolic critique than a considerate, despairing depiction of the intractable sway exerted by long-held, unpleasant traditions.
8. Brown presents a complex, provocative view ...
9. To say each group takes this tradition seriously can in no way convey the absolute nuttiness and frenzy that filmmaker Margaret Brown has captured.
10. Wise and soberly affecting documentary about the separate but unequal Mardi Gras festivities that take place each year in Mobile, Ala.


question: Well, the women in this film are incredibly attractive and flaunt that fact quite a lot. Unfortunatly, that's all there is to the film. The script is almost as big a joke as the charactors, and everything else follows the same path. If you're looking for a tease then see this flick, otherwise stay as far away as possible.

numbered reviews:
1. An authentically spirited popcorn movie.
2. Coyote Ugly is a howler.
3. You wish that nearly everything but the two main characters had been scraped and replaced with a new and much improved script.
4. Gina Wendkos' screenplay manages to make "Flashdance" seem plot-heavy by comparison. ...we see the lovely faces of Perabo, Miko and Moynahan and the swinging hips and stomping feet of three anonymous dance doubles.
5. Solamente es recomendable ver en uno de esos días en los que no hay absolutamente nada que hacer. Para dar pena ajena.
6. As slick and mindless as one might expect...
7. There were certain aspects that I loved.... It had to do with hot, sexy women dancing on a bar in a wet T-shirt contest.
8. Sexist, shallow and silly. Teens+.
9. The cast fleshes out the cliches exuberantly and with little irony, which is something of a relief.
10. A movie about a bunch of effortlessly attractive, empty-headed people who manage to constantly have fun at even the most menial of jobs . . . give me some reason to care!