A whimsical tale of love and the supernatural, Winter’s Tale is so heavy-handed and self-serious that you can’t quite believe your eyes
I, Frankenstein details how Frankenstein’s Monster gets caught up in the age-old conflict between gargoyles and demons
One Direction: This Is Us purports to tell the story of the record-setting UK boy band cobbled together from X-Factor contestants
After Earth is never offensively bad, and in fact it’s a good deal better than two other would-be sci-fi/fantasy franchises that failed to launch in 2013
The Big Wedding casts Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams and other fins actors in an entirely dull affair
Devil’s Pass is based on the real-life Dyatlov Pass incident, a fascinating story that has inspired countless conspiracy theories
Safe Haven is the eighth Nicholas Sparks novel to be turned into a film, most of which have been spurned by the success of The Notebook
Gambit boasts a script by Joel and Ethan Coen, from the original 1966 Michael Caine caper movie of the same name.
A Good Day to Die Hard only resembles the earlier films with a few token nods; otherwise, it feels like direct-to-DVD junk
Gangster Squad is a high-profile, high-energy, overdone and undercooked version of a purportedly true story
Tyler Perry takes over from the character previously played by Morgan Freeman in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider
Silent Hill: Revelation, based on Konami’s popular series of survival horror video games, delivers what you might expect
Taken 2 bows with a simultaneous worldwide release that reeks of cash grab: get in, get out, and forget about Taken 3
Jan Hřebejk’s Svatá čtveřice (4Some, retitled from The Holy Quaternity in English) takes a look at two families sleeping around with each other
Total Recall is doubly disappointing when compared to the 1990 Paul Verhoeven film and the original Philip K. Dick short story
Iron Sky is as cheap and one-note as you might expect from the premise of Nazis living on the moon about to invade Earth
Piranha 3DD (geddit?) represents precisely the kind of movie that its predecessor so successfully tore apart
What to Expect When You’re Expecting is the latest entry in the Valentine’s Day genre of ensemble romantic comedy
At least StreetDance 2 is mercifully short; under 80 minutes, minus credits. It’s also entirely insufficient.
The Cold Light of Day is never overtly awful, and might even be an acceptable late-night cable diversion, but it’s utterly routine and unmemorable
Streep took home an Oscar for a particularly bland and passionless role that fails to capture the essence of the iconic politician
This Means War is Spy vs. Spy as two young CIA agents vie to win the affections of a product testing executive
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked is no worse than its immediate predecessors; perhaps a notch below the 2007 film
If nothing else, Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve must have been great fun for the product placement department