The Final Destination is the weakest in the series in terms of plot and character but delivers what the core audience is looking for
The Ugly Truth continues a disturbing new breed of raunchy romantic comedy; it panders to members of both sexes, and manages to insult them equally
The Brothers Bloom stars Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, and Rinko Kikuchi in a fun caper story from writer-director Rian Johnson
Surrogates poses an interesting question: instead of living your own life, what if you could control a lifelike robot to live it for you?
An intense and incredibly controlled film, Hunger represents a remarkable directorial debut for Steve McQueen
There’s exactly half a great film in Nora Ephron’s Julie and Julia: the Julia half, based on Julia Child’s My Life in France
Night of the Living Dead 3D is a cheap cash-in trying to capitalize on the name of the original and the recent resurgence in 3D films
Gamer is a loud, incoherent, and ultimately miserable experience, but the directors are trying here
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past uses Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as a basis of sorts, and it’s this storyline that keeps the movie afloat
A brilliant central concept and excellent computer-generated effects bolsters director Neill Blomkamp’s provocative District 9
Man on Wire tells Petit’s incredible tale, and lets Petit tell it himself a good portion of the time
The Taking of Pelham 123 is another pointless remake that strips the original film down to its bare essentials for an update, removing most of the flavor in the process
The Proposal starts out dismally but greatly improves as it goes through the motions
There’s a fascinating story in the behind-the-scenes of the Woodstock music festival, but Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock only tells about half of it
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a real pleasure to watch, an audacious and inventive amalgamation of spaghetti westerns and WWII exploitation films,
Pixar’s Up doesn’t quite reach the heights of Ratatouille and Wall-E, the kind of wonderful, transcendent animated films that Hollywood rarely sees
Two Lovers stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Joaquin Phoenix, in what is apparently his final acting appearance
G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra may be mindless junk but it’s also mostly harmless and occasionally fun
Brüno is a rather loose collection of gags akin to Cohen’s Da Ali G Show or the Jackass movies
Cage is terrific in Knowing, which has one of the most effective scenes of terror ever seen in a film
A wonderful little slice of Americana, Sam Mendes’ Away We Go is the perfect antidote to his previous feature, the emotionally devastating Revolutionary Road
There’s a real love for classic rock and pirate radio that shines through in Richard Curtis’ The Boat That Rocked
The Accidental Husband has a couple of appealing performances from Uma Thurman and Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bronson is a striking but strangely aloof film that would have been better served had the director shown a little restraint