Selected home-video releases:"Bridge to Terabithia"Fantasy comes alive in this family hit adapted from the acclaimed children's novel by Katherine Paterson, the screenplay co-written by her son, playwright David Paterson. The tale of friendship and first love centers on a shy, creative boy (Josh Hutcherson) who...

"O Lucky Man!" clearly has a number of things on its mind, but as a movie, it is a very mixed bag. Because Mr. Anderson is much more bold and free as a director than [David] Sherwin is inventive as a social satirist, "O Lucky Man!" always promises to be much more stimulating and funny than it ever is. Staying with it through its almost three-hour running time becomes increasingly nerve-racking, like watching superimposed images that never synchronize. The result does not match th...

O Lucky Man! is so much the worst of [Anderson's three features] that it seems twisted by rancor—pickled in Anderson's bile because he wasn't called a genius for the first two. The film exudes conceit and pigheadedness, and is steeped in self-display and self-reference, a three-hour effort at self-canonization…. There is no single moment that is not well directed, some moments much better than that. But what is supposed to be a work of radical daring, in method and matter,...

[If] O Lucky Man! is a celebration of success, it is of success in a bad world, a world in which, as the sophomoric cynicism of the song lyrics has it, "only wealth will buy you justice" and "Someone's got to win the human race/If it isn't you, then it has to be me." And, in being a kind of apologia provita sua for the director, it seems to me very much a work of bad faith and guilty conscience. To be sure, Anderson doesn't exempt himself from the film'...