Mini-Review: Why Fincher is enamored of film geeks and critics is a bigger mystery than any in the film itself.

Mini-Review: The Sitter isn't a great -- radical -- advance like Jared Hess' Gentlemen Broncos (a classic-in-waiting), but its fondness for kind idiosyncrasy outlines a humanist view similar to Hess.

Mini-Review: [Scorsese] wants to think of himself as a child of cinema, always working behind the scenes at the actual preservation of old films and -- egotistically -- maintaining the very idea of cinema. Unfortunately, it's the idea of cinema that Hugo short-changes -- just as Scorsese betrays what at one time seemed his gift.

Mini-Review: The Descendants is full of false modesty, starting with the Hawaii setting for which Payne has no feeling. It's one thing to depict Nebraska's flat environment, as has been his tendency, but this film's visual banality reflects poorly on Payne's skills.

Mini-Review: Despite Leo DiCaprio's eager-beaver empathetic performance, this grim, humorless exercise, featuring lousy old-age make-up, turns out ghoulish and self-congratulatory -- just like Milk.