(B+) This movie piles it on too much and can't quite balance the black humor and the serious plot at times. Taken a bit further each of these problems might kill it, but "Falling Down" stays just inside the lines and is a bleak, effective thriller, and it reminds us that we can't afford to ignore Schumacher entirely, no matter how much junk he makes.

(C+) This movie has earned itself a fairly bad rep over the years, but I think it's a fair bit of hokey fun, if not what I'd call "good". Also, that Margot Kidder was real purty back then hehehehe...

(A) No matter how many times I see this it still sucks me like few other films can. And I disagree with general critics, I think this has got a lotta heart and human interest to it. In short, it's still one of my favorite films, and I can't wait for the big, final DVD set later this year.

(B+) Not 100% consistent, though it's never grating the way every other Brooks film I've seen can be at times, but it's a lot of fun with great comic performances even at the times when the written material isn't anything special. Wilder is one of the greatest comic actors ever, and this is one of his best performances.

(B) Polanksi's first English language feauture and his first urban paranoia film. Fairly ahead of its time and quite eerie at moments. Too bad the DVD is horrendous, hopefully Criterion will get ahold of it someday.

(D+) Yeah, it's supposed to be stupid and all, but just being really bad and stupid doesn't automatically make a film funny. The leprechauns antics are vaguely amusing for a while, but he wears thin and the rest of the movie is quite grating.

(B) I wish I coulda seen the original, but this version is good in and of itself. It's got your standard Serling mix of populist sentimentalism and cynicism topped off with his punchy and hard-bitten, if not always believable dialogue. Good stuff, though not the cheeriest thing you're gonna see.

(A) Still a long-time favorite, and perhaps my pick for best movie of the 80s. Abraham carries the film with his brilliant, multi-faceted performance as the tortured, vengeful Salieri, and the film is top-notch in all other regards as well.

(B+) A good companion piece to Bergman's earlier "Seventh Seal". A bleak and evocative film of violence and vengeance in medieval europe.

(B+) Often very funny and always charming 50 b-movie spoof. A little overlong, perhaps, but still amusing.

(B+) Quite an underappreciated sci-fi/horror film. The fx are badly dated now, but it's very tense and well-done otherwise.

(B+) A very solid sci-fi horror film from Twohy and company with, wonder of wonders, a very good performance from Vin Diesel. It moves slow, but it's pleasantly atmospheric throughout, and actually uses this time to create some interesting characters.

(B) Serling penned study on power and power struggle. It's a tad heavy handed at times, as he often is, but he, once again, makes it work anyway.

(B+) Occasionally a tad slow, but this is, overall, a very fine sci-fi film with an intriguing story and very cool fx, for the day.

(B) I must admit, I like this film quite a lot. This Williamson script is actually a lot better and more clever than his more famed "Scream" script, though nothing here can match that film's classic opening. Still, a solid horror/horror parody with atypically appealing characters for such a production, though it still falls to some of the stand teen-horror pitfalls.

(B-) A surprisingly mature and even arty film from Lucas, but it never totally came alive for me. It's kinda moderately interesting the whole way through, but that's about it.