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Just in time for Valentine's Day, 50 First Dates tries to be romantic and funny, but is, instead, an exercise in creepiness.

With two feature movies to his credit, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! and Legally Blonde, director Robert Luketic's sassy style offers a distinct alternative in a genre dominated by vulgarity. Jennifer LopezPeter Weir

The sequel to last year's surprise hit Barbershop, Barbershop 2: Back in Business is an amiable mess filled with fun characters and more plots than The Lord of the Rings trilogy. But, even as flawed as it is, the movie sort of works.

Kurt Russell's stirring lead performance elevates an otherwise lackluster sports movie, Miracle, from Walt Disney Pictures. As the coach who led a team of scrappy young Americans to a breathtaking ice hockey victory over the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics, Russell projects the goal-oriented mission behind the so-called miracle.

There is nothing outstanding or offensive in the teen caper The Perfect Score. Indeed, the movie is so average that it could be used as a mean by which to grade all other movies in theatres today, which is ironic considering that the central plot point revolves around the dreaded SAT and the obsession the college bound have with test scores.

What would happen if you went back in time and changed how an event turned out? What would be the consequences of these altered actions? That's the intriguing premise of the Ashton Kutcher vehicle The Butterfly Effect.

DreamWorks' Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! is the type of clever, breezy romance that Hollywood used to make without much fuss. While director Robert Luketic's second feature is brilliant compared with today's predominantly idiotic comedies, like his comparably infectious debut Legally Blonde, it is actually light romantic comedy done well.

DreamWorks's latest juvenile comedy, Eurotrip, is another trashy teen picture, though it's not as bad as its predecessors are.

The glut of gross-out movies aimed at young males is bad enough without having to subject girls to pap like Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. The Disney picture stars Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday) as a new kid in a town.

The glut of gross-out movies continues unabated with Along Came Polly, written and directed by John Hamburg, the co-writer of Meet the Parents and Zoolander. Ben Stiller fans and those who bust a gut over toilet-oriented jokes will probably find this trashy production hilarious. Despite the slick marketing—the print ads mask it as a light romance—Along Came Polly plays like a bad sitcom episode with a bigger budget.

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Despite its imperfections, Peter Pan is the best childrens' picture in a long time. By keeping true to the source, English writer J.M. Barrie's stories, director P.J. Hogan (My Best Friend's Wedding) has pointedly rejected the incessant ba-dump-dump blather that screams from today's juvenile movies. Hogan's Peter Pan is a marvelous, magical adventure.

Director John Woo has set a milestone with his latest thriller Paycheck. It is probably the most boneheaded movie of 2003.