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
Dream House devolves into a cookie-cutter formula and choppy, abrupt editing that seems to open up retrospective plot holes
Shark Night is a relentlessly derivative, dull, and frequently idiotic movie that hopes to get by on the popularity of its title creatures alone
Womb is a deadening slog that takes a fascinating, unsettling premise and takes its sweet time to do next to nothing with it
Bad Teacher just might get some laughs out of you, even though you know better
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
Just Go with It might be Adam Sandler’s worst movie yet; at least the cast got a trip to Hawaii out of it
I Am Number Four is an amalgamation of just about all the other hot franchise properties from the past decade
Ron Howard’s The Dilemma is a rarely funny bromance, overlong and aggravating and without a dilemma