Turner, with her leonine sexiness, remains a radiantly adult actress. She deserves better than this kid-stuff thriller.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

Not good.

| Jul 6, 2010

"V. I. Warshawski" has a breezy style and a serviceable, even surprising detective plot. And it has Ms. Turner, who makes the most of V. I. Warshawski's sardonic humor.

| May 20, 2003

The film looks as if it were shot through ripped pantyhose. It took three writers to craft a script of unvarying cliches. And the direction, by Jeff Kanew, is all you'd expect from the hack who brought forth Revenge of the Nerds and Troop Beverly Hills.

| May 12, 2001

Kathleen Turner fits the character more closely than I would have imagined.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Mistakenly believing that it can succeed on nothing but the notion of a woman doing a "man's job," V.I. Warshawski is zilch in the plot department; most half-hour detective dramas on television have more compelling story lines.

| Jan 1, 2000