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HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo) - A few years ago, Kenny Loggins, the perennially boyish singer whose career spans 30 years and such memorable movie tunes as "I'm Alright" from Caddyshack, was ready to quit.

Jackie Chan's latest star vehicle The Medallion is mildly entertaining for the Chan fan. At 49, Chan's martial arts action is strikingly solid and his easygoing humor still offers a respite from today's asinine comedies. But there is less of both, and The Medallion often plays like a one-way video game.

What must have read like a charming coming-of-age story set in the suburbs on the printed page has its moments, but The Battle of Shaker Heights feels mostly like the movie made by committee that it is. Still, the winner of Project Greenlight's second screenwriting contest could have been worse.

One of many unnerving issues raised in One Hour Photo is whether or not photos properly depict and preserve the history of our lives. Robin Williams narrates in a haunting voice that most family photos only show happy moments, that anyone looking through our photo albums might come to the conclusion that we had lived a "leisurely existence free from tragedy." "Nobody ever takes a picture of something they want to forget," he says. Blend that kind of disturbing analysis with a bone-chilling score, and Mark Romanek's psychological masterpiece is apt to leave you unsettled and afraid.

Add Kevin Costner's Open Range to the expanding list of movies whose trailers promise a theme the picture doesn't deliver. What you see advertised—a scene in which Mr. Costner's cowboy character renders swift justice—isn't what you get.

There's a theory in American entertainment: there can never be too much of a good thing, particularly a gazillion dollar grossing movie franchise. But like too much apple pie, the newest entry in the American Pie "saga," American Wedding, may leave even fans with a tummy ache.

When comedian Bob Hope died on Sunday, at age 100, the media unleashed old clips and canned obituaries, and the world has been getting to know him again ever since.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen isn't so much a terrible movie as it is frightfully dull. There is a good (not great) picture desperately trying to break out of Blade director Stephen Norrington's adaptation of the Alan Moore-Kevin O'Neill graphic novel of the same name about famous 19th century literary characters joining forces, but it is bogged down by lackluster performances and an absolutely inchoate script by James Dale Robinson.

Thanks to the presence of sparkling Reese Witherspoon as girly Harvard Law graduate Elle Woods, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde is fun, light and sassy, just like its predecessor. Though it's minus the sense of triumph that made Legally Blonde a smash at the box office.

More than any actress in motion pictures, Katharine Hepburn, who died on Sunday at 96, was like an enduring, bright star against a black sky. From Morning Glory (1933), in which her defiance ends the picture with the proclamation, "I'm not afraid!," to Love Affair (1994), in which she is the steady voice for romantic love, Miss Hepburn leaves a lifetime of great performances.

In the wake of the Iraq War and the almost immediate disintegration of that society as well as the SARS outbreak that has panicked half the world, director Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later couldn't be more timely or more needed. Because what Boyle delivers is more than one of the best end of the world horror flicks in a long time, but a treatise on what it means to be a civilized human being when civilization evaporates overnight.

Settling into one's theater seat to watch a movie is a singular pleasure. There's the enjoyment of choosing the picture, and there is the promise of looking up, for 80 minutes or for over three hours, at a new creation -- still a good value for under ten bucks.

A lot has been written about the strong family message in Whale Rider, and there is no mistaking that this story of intergenerational love and conflict is, on the surface, about the mending of a broken family, but there is another aspect that hasn't been written about—or at least only touched on—and that's the movie's theme. It isn't about family or even the need to honor the hand in glove relationship of tradition and progress. At root,Whale Rider is one of the best pictures about leadership that has been made in years, a movie that many of our corporate and political leaders would do well to make a beeline to see.

2 Fast 2 Furious belongs squarely in the "fast buck" school of sequels. There is absolutely no reason this movie should exist aside from the fact that Vin Diesel's breakout vehicle The Fast and the Furious made oodles of cash. Since Diesel's asking price soared too high, the only returnee from the original is surfer-boy Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner, now an ex-cop and full time street racer. Not to worry though. This franchise isn't about the people. It's about the cars.

HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo)—Comedy is king, but over the long Memorial Day weekend it was promoted to God, thanks to the massive debut of Bruce Almighty. Jim Carrey

There are moments when Bruce Almighty is funny—and nearly every one of them is in the trailer. Other than a few standup jokes and sight gags, director Tom Shadyac's comedy is one long, heavy dose of sanctimony.

HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo) - The prophecy came true. The Matrix Reloaded proved to be The One on its opening weekend.

HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo) - Atlas Shrugged is not the first literary adaptation for James V. Hart.

HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo) - Fans of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged have heard this one before: the movie rights have been sold and the enduring bestseller is coming to the silver screen.

Once upon a time there was a vicious attack on America -- an act of war -- and Hollywood's biggest stars had plenty to say -- and do -- about it. With the war in Iraq practically over and Hollywood liberals making themselves scarce, it's time to put Hollywood and war in perspective.