'Cheri" is a sumptuous period film, a literate work whose pedigree might seem intimidating to those who weren't English majors. At heart, it's a simple story of doomed love.

Movie Review:Michael Bay movies are just like piñatas: No matter how much we critics bash them, they still shower the eager masses with tasty, colorful, easy-to-swallow junk.

Movie Review:Just after the screen went dark at the screening I attended of "My Sister's Keeper," someone nearby let out a loud sigh.

Movie Review:Love N' Dancing isn't a "Lifetime Original Movie." Not yet. But you can hear the commercials for it as you watch it.

Movie Review:'The Girlfriend Experience" is another one of Steven Soderbergh's peculiar, experimental productions that people mostly admire and respect more than like.

Review:I might as well say it now: "Year One" should really be called "Judd Apatow's Life of Brian."

Review:Thank goodness for Betty White. Just knowing that the always game, still golden comedian would be in "The Proposal," made me smile. You just know that they are going to get Ms. Betty to put on that sweet smile and say or do something considered age-inapproriate.

Review:I tried to give "Easy Virtue" a chance -- I swear.

Movie Review:Tony Scott took a movie that I thought was awesome and remade it into another pile-up of noise, gunfire and blustery machismo.

Movie Review:Like many PG films these days, "Imagine That" isn't really a kid's movie. The message and much of the content will resonate most strongly with adults.

Movie Review:If you sat through "Land of the Lost" last weekend (and if you did, why?), you probably walked out the theater with the strong belief that "A Chorus Line" is, in a word, gay.

Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody star as Stephen and Bloom, brothers who bounced between foster homes as children for their various schemes.

Movie Review:These days, it's hard to tell whether people are still intrigued by Mike Tyson because he's a sports icon or because he's a self-destructive, headline-launching lightning rod for scandal and controversy.

You'd be forgiven for thinking "The Hangover" is a documentary. After all, who hasn't woken up in a trashed Las Vegas hotel suite with a missing tooth, a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet and little or no memory of what happened the night before?

Movie Review:OK, I've never been that enamored with the original "Land of the Lost" or most of Sid and Marty Krofft's trippy, they-must've-been-on-that-stuff-when-they-came-up-with-this Saturday-morning shows from the '70s. I was much more a fan of their '80s work.

Movie Review:The plot, premise and jokes in "My Life in Ruins" are as ancient as the Greek statues and artifacts the film beautifully highlights. And I don't mean that in a good way.

Movie Review:When "This Is Spinal Tap" came out 25 years ago, the now-classic "mockumentary" fooled more than one viewer into thinking it was a real documentary of a real band. "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" has the opposite problem, sort of.

Movie Review:It doesn't take much to scare someone these days. Just turn on the television and you can see a terrifying situation. When the economy was better, horror films were the perfect antidotes to comfortable living.

Movie Review:It's nice to know that in these pessimistic, no-one-is-promised-tomorrow times, we can count on a few things never letting us down.

Movie Review:'Goodbye Solo," the latest from filmmaker and Winston-Salem native Ramin Bahrani, is basically about what happens when one wants to be left alone.

Movie Review:Short, majestically coiffed, with hooded eyes, an orange-tinted tan and the peevish impatience of an absolute monarch: that is Valentino Garavani, the Italian couturier known simply as Valentino, as he appears in Matt Tyrnauer's documentary portrait, "Valentino: The Last Emperor." Watching the movie is a little like gorging on chocolate and champagne until that queasy moment arrives when you realize you've consumed far too much.

"Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" is one of those sequels in which "bigger" is supposed to mean "better," in which more characters, more sight gags and more action are supposed to add up to more fun.

They don't.