1. Given American cinema's current obsession with innocence and ignorance, at least this never romanticises its protagonists. They are genuinely, irredeemably, 100 per cent no-hopers.
2. Gone are the days of John Belushi, where rudeness was raised to an art form.
3. we can see a lot of these laughs coming, and they don't hold much staying power
4. A gross-out classic.
5. Gross to the max but very funny, this succeeds through energy, ingenuity and -- against all the odds -- the charm of its dopey leads.
6. The wholeheartedness of this descent into crude and rude humor is so good-natured and precise that it's hard not to partake in the guilty pleasures of the exercise.
7. Well titled and, for its purpose, a total success.
8. This is a long way from the social comedy of Jerry Lewis. The characters here are ultimately turned into punching bags or punch-line dispensers.
9. While I won't claim to have gone through this entire film without laughing, there are some long periods between chuckles.
10. a bit too dumb
A relentlessly stupid comedy elevated by its main actors: Jim Carrey goes bonkers and Jeff Daniels carries himself admirably in an against-type performance.

1. It's too bad that the requirements of plotting require movies like this to crank up the event count, when actually what works is just the daily minutiae of Bernadette's life.
2. The year's one clear candidate for future cult status.
3. This is a road movie with a difference.
4. You may have Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive' rattling through your head for a few days, but that's a small price to pay for an audience with true royalty.
5. For sheer camp value, Priscilla is a lot of fun, even if it has next to nothing to say.
6. Bernadette -- formerly Ralph -- turns out to be an excellent role for Stamp.
7. It's often very funny, looks great and is played to perfection.
8. You'll never look at The Matrix the same way again.
9. The film builds an enormously affectionate tribute to a band of outsiders.
10. The casting of the film was a stroke of genius.
While its premise is ripe for comedy -- and it certainly delivers its fair share of laughs -- Priscilla is also a surprisingly tender and thoughtful road movie with some outstanding performances.

1. The film has less than zero staying power, and I ultimately have serious issues with its moral formulation, but its pleasures are difficult to negate.
2. Despite its narrative chaos, Spanglish might have been fun to watch if it weren't for two dimensional characterizations and strange messages.
3. ...less like an acknowledgment of the changing American demographic or an essay on the peculiar common madness of parenthood than a particularly dull-witted sitcom
4. One wants to smack Brooks and ask him just who and what the hell the movie is supposed to be about.
5. With these characters Brooks conjures up a few devastatingly truthful moments, and the overall result feels just about right.
6. Brooks, fumbling around with too many characters and too many issues, can't find the heart of the story or give heart to the part of it he chose to focus on.
7. There are more than enough moments of progressively minded pith and non-nauseating tenderness to preserve your affection.
8. The film too often seems to be talking down, to its subjects and to its audience.
9. The movie is what in Hollywood they call 'character-driven,' and it does take its sweet time. But much of that time is sweet indeed.
10. Instead of a classic along the lines of As Good as It Gets; Spanglish is merely a pleasant diversion. Sandler's surprise turn makes it worth a viewing.
Paz Vega shines, and Adam Sandler gives a performance of thoughtfulness and depth, but Spanglish is ultimately undermined by sitcommy plotting and unearned uplift.

1. What would it take to turn your world upside down? For me, it took seeing a good Michael Bay movie.
2. The Island is not a great popcorn movie.
3. Classic Bay, except it's missing the crass director's fine-tuned rhythm, his feel for adrenaline, his breakneck edits and sense of humor.
4. The first half of Michael Bay's new film is a spare, creepy science fiction parable, and then it shifts into a high-tech action picture. Both halves work. Whether they work together is a good question.
5. Michael Bay has made a movie that makes you ponder matters more meaningful than how cool that last car chase looked.
6. The first half is high-quality science fiction, the rest is a high-tech chase adventure with a gleeful yen for destructive thrills.
7. As futuristic nightmares go, The Island is pretty appealing.
8. There's a good idea and an intriguing story hidden underneath all of Bay's boom-booms. Too bad the smoke doesn't clear long enough to see it.
9. The Island is a curious hybrid of intriguing sci-fi premise and over-the-top action sequences. Nevertheless, it manages to provide adrenaline-charged entertainment for two hours.
10. A pleasantly derivative medley of Logan's Run, THX-1138 and an Obsession for Men ad.

A clone of THX 1183, Coma, and Logan's Run, The Island is another loud and bombastic Michael Bay movie where explosions and chases matter more than characters, dialogue, or plot.