Hairspray

• Levy (O): "...few films have been so genuinely crowd-pleasing in years."
  
  
• Clarke (WW): "...as a remake, it's a dirty shame. But as a musical, it's a surprisingly good time."
  
  
• Skinner (Merc): "...the new version is all about the energy and good times -- even the segregation issues at the story's heart are treated as little more than a pesky buzz kill."

Bottom line: John Waters purists should stay away. Everyone else will love it.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

• Caraeff (Merc): "...another in a long line of mainstream comedies that specialize in gay jokes for people who, most likely, hate gay people."
  
  
• Mesh (WW): "...a movie that spends its last hour desperately faltering for an apology for all the offense it caused before, like a frat boy trying to talk his way out of a date-rape charge."
  
  
• Macdonald (ST): "...well-intentioned but only sporadically entertaining."

Bottom line: Probably offensive, certainly not funny.

Joshua

• Rockoff (WW): "Fortunately, the film is full of Hitchcockian suspense and unsettling atmosphere."
  
  
• Wright (Stranger): "The final result is that all-too-rare kind of movie that can get you nervously giggling at your own unease."
  
  
• Levy (O): "Most impressive is the work of George Ratliff, making his feature film debut as a director and co-screenwriter."

Bottom line: If you're in the mood for a horror/thriller, you could do worse.

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