This new Kojak has a bond with his boss, Capt. Frank McNeil (Chazz Palminteri), and despite the tough-guy posturing, he’s not afraid to show him his emotions.

A complicated story that demands your full attention; Mr. Gondry unfolds it at a mind-bending pace. This alone makes it a hugely refreshing respite from ordinary multiplex fare.

Stretches the boundaries of offensiveness in ways that both make us laugh and make us think.

Potter 3 is, in its heart of hearts, a teenage angst movie…Cuaron has done a masterful job of bringing off this shift in the Potter paradigm without disrupting any disruption in the established style of the series and without any pandering concessions to the teen-movie genre.

Like the first movie this is unassailable family entertainment, with a gentle fairy tale for kids and a raft of mildly satirical pop-culture references for parents.

For all of its dire premonitions, foreshadowings of horror and easy targets for Jay Leno jokes, The Day After Tomorrow is eye-poppingly awesome and wonderfully entertaining.