Catwoman

It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.

• “For Friday night this will do just fine. It's definitely a good matchup -- Stone's cynical bravado versus Berry's resilient spunkiness in a world-class cat fight.”

  Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle · 75

• “Not everybody will be able to swallow its heady romanticism, yet its French director, Pitof, has brought sophistication to a comic book sensibility, which helps some purple patches of dialogue along with other absurdities.”

  Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times · 70

• “I wouldn't call Catwoman incompetent, yet it has no visual grandeur, and very little surprise; you can tick off the story beats as if they'd been graphed.”

  Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly · 67

• “Much like a cat, the movie is a superfluous gob of fluff with an attitude ranging from idiotic to nasty.”

  Gregory Weinkauf, Dallas Observer · 50

• “The result is not the train wreck one might anticipate from surfing the Net. The catfights, overacting and Berry's swagger in a skimpy, tight, leather outfit that would be right at home at a Hookers Ball make for campy fun.”

  Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter · 50