Conan the Barbarian is far from a good film, but it delivers enough B-movie cheap thrills to skate by for its intended audience
The Lincoln Lawyer gives Matthew McConaughey a career-best role as sleazy defense attorney Mickey Haller
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a near-great film that ultimately settles for being merely good
Horrible Bosses is an engaging and relevant comedy that’s especially fun, at least most of the way – and the cast is dynamite
Captain America: The First Avenger represents some of the best of what the Marvel universe has brought to the screen
Cars 2, a sequel to one of Pixar’s less memorable features, is the studio’s first outright dud
Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre is the kind of literate, refined production that might be more at home in a BBC miniseries
Bad Teacher just might get some laughs out of you, even though you know better
The Resident is an urban psychological thriller with some light horror overtones and a vaguely familiar air
Kuky se vrací (Kooky) follows the adventures an endearing pink doll struggling to find his way home
The Tree of Life is director Terrence Malick’s most ambitious and challenging film to date; and quite possibly his very best
The Mechanic is slick, polished entertainment; Simon West is a proficient technician, and the action scenes are competently handled
Richard Ayoade’s Submarine is a pure delight: quirky, poignant, and frequently very funny
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is a wholly satisfying conclusion to the decade-long Harry Potter franchise
Bridesmaids teams producer Judd Apatow with Freaks and Geeks co-creator Paul Feig for a female-centric take on his usual rowdy antics
Hanna litters the road with a number of subtle pop culture references, dark humor, and just a slightly twisted sensibility
After nearly two hours of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, director Michael Bay finally delivers the utter annihilation of downtown Chicago
Surviving Life is Švankmajer’s most accessible work, from the style of animation to the fairly straightforward narrative
Your Highness is a medieval fantasy-comedy with a $50 million budget and overdose of infantile humor
Skyline simply doesn’t work, and it’s at times it’s unbearably bad until the film’s final five minutes, when it finally comes to life
There are a lot of endearing qualities in Paul, a spoofy alien comedy that parodies ComiCon culture and pop sci-fi
The Hangover Part II is that it’s a carbon copy of the original film, with the setting changed from Las Vegas to Thailand
It takes some gumption to title your film First Class, but that’s exactly what Matthew Vaughn has delivered with his dynamite X-Men prequel
Melancholia is not for everyone; sly, brooding, slow-paced, and pretentious to a fault, it’s not going to win the director any converts