The direction is brilliant, the story is profound and reaffirming. Through the cacophony and scars of life, hope and love remain strong. Friends can save each other like musketeers. And everything happens for a reason. It made me ridiculously happy.

"Who are these guys?" Well, there's Paul Newman, the white Sidney Poitier, class defined, delivering every line perfectly and Robert Redford, almost doing the impossible by just about out-cooling Newman. Who'd have thought a movie about two guys running away would be so perfect. Thanks to the bond between these two legends, it is.

How good it feels to extend a helping hand and get swept up into the beat. How alive! The pace of this movie is very slow, but it let's you feel the awkwardness and hesitation. We are so blest to be born in this country. When did we are an immigrant people?

It was a good summer for superhero movies, ay? This one is just cool. Thoroughly enjoyable, but not very deep. Metallic cotton candy.

First thought: I love Amy Ryan. She's mad genius and I will rent anything with her in it. Second thought: Who'd have thought Ben Affleck was capable of such a thoughtful, provocative film? Third thought (pointed out by my wife)-Why doesn't the uncle just report her to Social Services and they raise the kid. That's a pretty big plot hole that renders the rest of the movie moot.

It has all the elements of a perfect movie but falls just short of greatness. Still, lots of nostalgia value and certainly in Zemeckis' top 5 best movies.

Meryl Streep's children and grandchildren will be able to watch this performance, one of the most total inhabitations of a character's skin ever, and be proud. The rest of us can just watch in amazement.

What a grand final 30 minutes it is. You will really need some ice cream. The Fuzz-O-Meter on the bonus features also is quite entertaining, revealing an abundance of references to other action flicks.

Good movies about race point out the prejudices we all harbor-this was a brave choice for Jewison and Poitier. I think this movie holds up well, it is also a good representative movie for that decade.

Another small interesting German tale. Neighbors turn against neighbor and lovers turn into informants, while an unlikely guardian leaves a fingerprint on the life of his unsuspecting ward.

The movie has some weak points (cough cough stevegutenberg cough), but love me some Jessica Tandy. Why don't they make more movies like this, that give actors who have honed their craft to perfection a chance to amaze us?

Honestly, my favorite part was when the credits rolled with Moby's synergetic "Extreme Days." There is a lot of rough and tumble action-which is all very cool-but there is no true heart to this movie and no real message to be gained from the twisty plot other than, "Watch out for the corrupt people in power." Ohhhh...profound.

Sigourney Weaver is following us. This is the fourth movie in a month that she has popped up in. As for the movie itself, it has heart, but it also has a helping of relativism (It's our history! We can change it!-bleh) It has funny zany Jack Black and annoying zany Jack Black. It is inventive, but 90 percent of the inventiveness was revealed in the trailer.

A charismatic monster is still a monster. It doesn't matter how many people remain silent. It doesn't matter if you like him and want to have a drink with him. Interesting story but hated the coda of this movie.

Spielberg sure does like aliens. I know Indiana Jones is supposed to be a tribute to Saturday afternoon cinema serials, but this is just too much. Too much luckily surviving, barely missing, just happening to stumble across the solution.

Wow. This is like the stereotype of a dense foreign film with voiceover and "innovative" angles and plodding plot and whimsical imagery.

Well...the trailer was great.

Everything was just TOO. MUCH. Especially the grandiose acting and the claustrophobic score that was so invasive I couldn't even think. That ending was wretched, and I'm not talking about the blood. "There will be blasphemy." Dark movies like this have to have an emotional heart; (think Ellen Burstyn in Requiem) this movie just had a gaping void left where the two men had sold their souls.