Knight and Day is the latest entry in this year’s popular buddy-action-romantic-comedy genre: a curious hodgepodge of stale plot points
Jaco Van Dormael’s Mr. Nobody is stunningly beautiful to look at, with postcard-perfect cinematography, but also Hellish to sit through
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is all about sex and lust and teenage infatuation, a lot of it coming from a 109-year-old character that ought to know better
From Paris with Love is all loud action and a louder John Travolta performance, and precious little of anything else
The ADD-inflected A-Team delivers intercuts the setup and payoff for almost all its big action sequences at the exactly same time,
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is probably the best video game adaptation to date, not that there’s been much competition
The Crazies, a remake of the 1973 George Romero classic, becomes a generic zombie movie, but works well on that level
The one real problem with this Clash of the Titans is the script, which suffers from that big-budget too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen syndrome
Everybody’s Fine is competently shot and directed and put together, and front and center is a pretty good performance by Robert De Niro
Alice in Wonderland for the Lord of the Rings/Chronicles of Narnia crowd, complete with a battlefield action climax
Valentine’s Day is an adequate, pleasant-enough date movie, but it’s utterly unmemorable in almost every detail
The Wolfman, a more or less straight-faced remake of the 1941 Universal horror film, is not a particularly good movie
The Box, starring James Marsden and Cameron Diaz, marks director Richard Kelly’s return to Donnie Darko territory
Law Abiding Citizen is a taut, suspenseful thriller that delivers levels of moral complexity to boot
Paranormal Activity is thoroughly creepy, and there are a couple boo! moments that might catch you off guard
Saw VI, directed by the editor of the previous five films, Kevin Greutert, is easily the most entertaining since the second installment
The Final Destination is the weakest in the series in terms of plot and character but delivers what the core audience is looking for
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past uses Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as a basis of sorts, and it’s this storyline that keeps the movie afloat
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
G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra may be mindless junk but it’s also mostly harmless and occasionally fun
Jim Jarmusch goes all Godard-arty in The Limits of Control, a painfully slow-moving and (nearly) fatally pretentious film
Kevin Smith tries to recapture some of that Chasing Amy magic in the salaciously titled Zack and Miri Make a Porno
The Secret of Moonacre, based on the acclaimed novel The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge, doesn’t have much going for it