A.I.

An extraordinarily accomplished failure. After dithering with this project for years, Stanley Kubrick bequeathed it to Steven Spielberg, who wrote his own screenplay after Kubrick's death. In the bleak world that remains after the polar ice cap has melted, David (Haley Joel Osment), a perfect-child robot programmed to love, so disturbs his neurotic mother (Francis O'Connor) that she turns him loose in the woods.

Dr. Dolittle 2

Eddie Murphy talks to the animals again in this mercifully short, briskly directed sequel to his 1998 hit. As wildlife's favorite veterinarian, Murphy facilitates a romance between a circus bear (voiced by the incomparable Steve Zahn) and an endangered female bear while trying to save a forest from destruction. It's a good-natured film that offers the welcome tonic of a blend of talented voices rising above the summer-movie bombast.

Tomb Raider

Guns strapped to her thighs, her lower lip as radically cleft as Kirk Douglas's chin, Angelina Jolie leaps and bungee-jumps her way through action sequences as Lara Croft, upper-class English adventuress. Jolie is cocksure and insinuating; she gets by just fine on pure attitude-acting isn't required. Simon West is the unimaginative, humorless director; the movie was "written" by Patrick Massett and John Zinman.