What Clint Eastwood’s murder mystery lacks in subtlety it makes up for in bravura performances from its A-list ensemble cast. Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon in particular stand out from the pack – which is really saying something.

How many laughs can you get out of a handful of one-joke characters?

Call it ‘Love, Greek-American Style’: a super-cutesy look at the one independent thinker within the ultimate stereotypical Greek-American family, which ironically suffers from fear of commitment to any of the interesting points it raises.

The films of Albert Brooks are not known for deep statements.

Writer-Director Stephen Sommers continues to set back the cause of Egyptology with a sequel that resurrects his 1999 hit, never straying far from his formula. As long as he keeps the action going – and he does – you can almost forgive the glaring idiocy that runs rampant through the film.

I probably shouldn’t be putting this in writing, since it makes me look rather plebian, but I thought The Mummy was a lot of fun.

Ah, the glory days of movie monsters, when a gaunt Boris Karloff brooding his way around styrofoam cement halls with powdery makeup would pass for chilling effects.

Baz Luhrmann’s vibrant film about doomed lovers in 19th century Paris is nothing less than a thrilling, daring reinvention of Opera for the 21st century.