John Leguizamo fumbles his way through an underwritten role haplessly.

Jeon is given an impossible task, playing a woman who seems impassive one moment, happy-go-lucky the next, and then tortured and obsessive a few instants later.

Similar tiles have been found from Boston to Kansas City, Mo., and as far afield as Buenos Aires. But they're nowhere so numerous as in Philadelphia, which is why Foy, who was raised in Willow Grove, dropped out of film school in Austin and moved back to Philadelphia to hunt for the Toynbee tiler.

Barney's Version isn't a film so much as a series of episodes, without much beyond plot to tie them together.

You get the feeling you've lived with these people for the year the film spans, and learned something from them, even if it's by way of a bad example.

The strengths of Weir's film have more to do with its awe-inspiring depiction of the ravages of nature than its historical accuracy.

The atmosphere Sofia Coppola creates in her fourth feature is so lovely, it's a shame when it's roiled by the encroachment of plot.

Kazuhiro Soda, who makes films in Japan but lives in New York City, is hardly the only documentarian to venerate the institutional documentaries of Frederick Wiseman, but he's one of a very few not to be shamed by the comparison.

As their second remake and their second literary adaptation, True Grit is especially weighted with ties to the past, although the Coens don't concern themselves overly with the 1969 adaptation of Charles Portis' novel.

The industry has been shameless in churning out trumped-up high-def retreads with little in the way of quality control — seriously, is there any point to a Blair Witch Project Blu-ray?