| Original Score: C+ | Jan 7, 2006

Sometimes a film wins you over with its sheer exuberance and sweetness.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

This is the real deal, and it shows up the likes of pre-Eighties Xanadu and Roller Boogie poseurs with a funky, grooving panache that's all its own.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2005

It will remind you what it was like to be a teenager during the last few days of summer. And even though the plot is a little thin, you probably won't even notice until long after the music stops.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2005

The end of the dismal summer movie season couldn't have been blessed with a more satisfying coda than the rollicking, funny, relentlessly cheery and genuinely touching spirit that makes Roll Bounce a captivating delight from start to finish.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2005

A movie made in the spirit of: what the world needs now is a bit of innocent diversion.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

If it doesn't exactly kick out the jams, it does move them around a little bit.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

The film can't get its rhythms right, fluctuating wildly between comedy and pathos.

| Sep 23, 2005

Roll Bounce has plenty of affectionate humor to balance some serious heart-tugging. And as for the roller-skating, it for sure provides a lot of razzle-dazzle action with lots of virtuoso terpsichorean touches.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 23, 2005

Not. Much. Happens. What does is predictable and trite. But it's a genial trifle with a booty-shaking vibe.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Modestly engaging entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Roll Bounce drags a little in its second hour, but it is also a rare movie that genuinely likes its characters. You will too.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2005

There's a lot of sweetness to Roll Bounce.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Malcolm Lee's sweet-natured dramatic comedy Roll Bounce captures the decade's texture with a well-earned nostalgia that never seems cheap.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

For most adults, and kids raised on South Park, the painfully earnest story won't hold much interest.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Definitely see it this weekend if you want 10 percent of your ticket proceeds to go to Operation USA for Hurricane Katrina relief. But please don't see it to relive 1978. Even under a roller disco ball, 1978 was never like this.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Quite possibly the finest roller disco movie ever made.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2005

An evocative coming of age story that is sweet, funny, touching, and completely genuine. And it has a superbly selected soundtrack of 70's gems.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 22, 2005

Sure, it sounds like predictable disco mush, but with Bow Wow in the driver's seat, a hammy cast and a never-ending roster of zingy one-liners, it's harmless fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2005

Malcolm D. Lee pays such affectionate homage to skating and '70s B-movies that you almost think they were, well, Peter Frampton or something.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2005