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Photographed by the great Russell Boyd but looking drab and washed out for 108 minutes, the movie just gets by on heart and a conversation-stopping finale.

Dig deeper than the classy looks and the shovelful of psychological topsoil ... and there's nothing here that hasn't been done before -- and done better.

If you can buy the pillow-lipped Angelina Jolie as a psychic FBI agent in Montreal to hunt a serial killer, then you can swallow the other implausibilities in this retread thriller.

Playing up the military angle is the best move, but this and some excellent incidental effects can't completely disguise the shortcomings.

Excruciatingly earnest yet convictionless.

Switch off, space out, and go where no self-respecting film lover has gone before.

Undigestible fusion of worst-case earth science and leaden pacing.

While Jordan's repeated freeze-frames try a little too hard for nonchalance, the overall cocktail of Gallic insouciance and American film noir grit delivers such relaxant properties you forgive a few foibles.

The Good Thief has a shambling grace to it, both jazzy and gritty at the same time.

This twisted romance possesses the soul and edgy atmosphere of an independent film but not quite the conviction.

The lack of a plausible leading lady is enough to sink what is otherwise an eye-catching, although heavily '90s-style, telling of one of history's most frequently filmed stories.

Both visually spectacular and staggeringly awful.

Despite the occasional detour into mawkishness, "A Previous Engagement" nicely balances unutterable truths about marriage and love with the comedy that is human interaction and the unending drama that is man and women, repulsion and attraction.

This is a romantic comedy where the romance is too fraught with implications for a comedy, and the treatment of character is too flippant for a romance.