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Movie Reviews by Reel People: 'Water for Elephants' Friday Flyer This is not a great movie, but entertaining and notable for its lack of gratuitous sex, violence, profanity and CGI special effects. The sharp dialog and acting are further supported by an uplifting score that provides the feel of a quality period ... See all stories on this topic » Friday Flyer

Post-Draft SD! Main Event, Rock's New Movie Getting Good Reviews, Superstars ... Wrestling Inc. The Rock's new movie, Fast Five, has been garnering strong reviews. RottenTomatoes.com, which aggregates movie reviews, has the flick at a 78% with 51 reviews in. It is easily the highest rated film of the series, besting the 52% the original earned. ... See all stories on this topic » Wrestling Inc.

Oliver Stone at SFIFF54: 'Nixon was one of Satan's spawn', Bush Jr. 'a moron' Examiner.com As the young questioner returned to his seat, Mr. Stone said, "you should run for president." For more of Omar's film stories, movie reviews and interviews visit his Popcorn Reel website and watch his unscripted film reviews on YouTube. ... See all stories on this topic »

Metal Worthy of Valhalla! Martinez News-Gazette I know I'm supposed to write movie reviews every week but that gets a tad tedious for all of us I'd wager. After awhile one gets tired of rambling about story structure and cinematography as I'm sure you're a bit tired of reading. ... See all stories on this topic »

Capsule reviews of feature films Kansas City Star Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's first feature set outside his homeland offers a shambling, multilingual discourse on the nature of art and the nature of marriage (and the nature of movie narratives, for that matter). That this purposefully twisting ... See all stories on this topic »

Daily indieWIRE Clicks: Summer Flicks, Tribeca Reviews & More Indie Wire (blog) The summer movie season isn't exactly best known for independent film. With billions of dollars set to be spent on a record amount of sequels ("Kung Fu Panda 2," "Transformers 3," "Pirates of the Caribbean 4," "Final Destination 5," "Harry Potter 8," ... See all stories on this topic »

"Atlas Shrugged" Sequel in the Works, Despite Terrible Reviews WorstPreviews.com Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the movie zero stars, and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it one. Aglialoro blamed the poor reviews on political bias. And he may have a point. On the same website, fans gave the movie an 85% fresh rating. ... See all stories on this topic » WorstPreviews.com

Full Review Hollywood.com Spill.com puts a whole new spin on the "classic" movie review; turning dorky and dry into hilarious and hip. Spill's reviews are high-quality animated videos featuring a regular cast of comic personalities. By Thomas Leupp Behold a franchise in ... See all stories on this topic » Hollywood.com