Catch Me If You Can

It's brilliantly acted. But best of all, it's brilliantly made.Read Full Review »

Results in about the nicest movie you could ask for at the holidays: a gently funny, sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good, that is to say, entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp, overmanipulative Hollywood practices.Read Full Review »

Supremely entertaining.Read Full Review »

Never less than engaging; all that’s missing is a proper crescendo. The picture moves along briskly, even at two and a half hours, but it seems to be running on cruise control.Read Full Review »

Nothing if not a celebration of our willingness to be gulled by life's charming strangers.Read Full Review »

Feels more like The Bill Clinton Story than "Primary Colors" (1998). It's a paean to naughty boys who dream of potency and become enraptured by their own scams -- a great American archetype.Read Full Review »

The film's charm ends up worn out by the very perfection of Frank's con. We look at this teen wizard of rotating identity, and we realize we know everything about him except who he is.Read Full Review »

This is not a major Spielberg film, although it is an effortlessly watchable one.Read Full Review »

An enjoyable, although not ambitious, holiday outing.Read Full Review »

In the end (and it's a happy end, to be sure), Catch Me if You Can is as crisp and trim as a new suit. Well, a new old suit - say, circa the 1960s.Read Full Review »