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What's the meaning of it all once the novelty of frenetic camera work has worn off and every Hollywood inside joke has been exhausted?

It's all so well done. Each exquisitely lit, perfectly framed scene is a feast for the eyes, and Redmayne's performance is inspired.

Sequel tries to follow the original with adolescent humor, gross-out gags and politically incorrect ethnic and sexual jokes.

Thanks to particularly inspired casting it's transformed from a standard indie movie, clichés and all, into something far more special.

As artistically rich as it is emotionally (and spiritually) unsettling. The combination is potent.

The Song may not make it to the top of the charts but it is (loosely) inspired by Scripture and might be excellent for date night.

There's something delightfully retro and very-early-Disney about this worthwhile adaptation of the popular children's book.

Compelling visuals are handicapped by news stories centered on sensationalist local footage that feel a bit dated; we don't learn much.

Shelton's breakout film helps us feel compassion rather than contempt for her foolish characters, resulting in a 'feel pretty good' film.

Goes a long way to indict the CIA and mainstream journalists that did the agency's bidding, but in the end it offers no answers or hope.

Jessica Chastain is absolutely dazzling but a lack of focus and seemingly endless sadness can't help wearing on the viewer after a while.

Owns the least plausible and laughably awful ending committed to film in recent memory; nothing but a poor knock-off of The Notebook.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a superior treatment of similar themes and the search for meaning and purpose.

Delivers many of the familiar genre beats of wartime movies, but then goes beyond them, excelling at moments both peaceful and violent.

Most of the movie feels un-scary, unsure of its theology, inconsistent in its methods, but there are a few nuggets of subtle quality.