The Amazing Spider-Man 2 plays it fast & loose, bright & colorful, and will certainly please undemanding fans, particularly younger viewers
Transcendence features a simple but irresistible premise, as a scientist has his brain transferred into a computer in order to live indefinitely
The Invisible Woman, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, is beautifully crafted but so low-key and subtle that it barely raises a pulse
Scott Waugh’s Need for Speed takes the same mentality as the video games: screw everything else, this is all about the cars
This RoboCop is shiny and new and competently made, but doesn’t hold a candle to the Verhoeven classic
The Book Thief tells an intimate story of a young girl coming to age in the horrors of Germany during WWII
Grudge Match, a light-hearted, easygoing affair that coasts along on the charisma of its stars, is better than you might expect
2013’s 47 Ronin, a $200 million blockbuster from Universal, is the first Hollywood-produced English-language version of the story
Delivery Man is a schmaltzy, easy-going drama with some lightly comedic scenes between Vince Vaughn and Chris Pratt
The Family is some kind of loopy fish-out-of-water comedy that tries to blend the real-world consequences of its setting into a light-hearted frame
Insidious: Chapter 2 delivers some creepy atmosphere and a few surprising jolts in the friendly confines of a routine J-horror ghost story
Redemption is a somber drama about an ex-Special Forces soldier who served in Afghanistan and now survives on the streets of London
About Time spices up the usual rom-com sentimentality with a sci-fi twist: our hero can travel in time at will
Donšajni (The Don Juans in English), the latest film from acclaimed director Jiří Menzel, often feels like a personal reflection on the loneliness
Stallone and Schwarzenegger are together at last in this by-the-numbers prison breakout movie
Runner Runner aspires to become another Wall Street but the script is so generic and predictable that the film barely manages a pulse
Diana charts Lady Di’s little-publicized love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan during the final years of her life
Kick-Ass 2 revels in over-the-top brutality; by the big action-packed finale, it has become the kind of superhero movie it originally set out to parody
Ashton Kutcher is Apple founder Steve Jobs in director Joshua Michael Stern’s Jobs, a standard-order biopic that focuses on the early days of Apple
Lovelace is a biography of Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace from directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Howl)
The buddy cop genre is given a minor twist in The Heat, which pits a pair of mismatched cops against a mysterious Boston drug lord
A slain cop is brought back to life to hunt undead criminals in R.I.P.D., short for Rest in Peace Department
Roland Emmerich’s goofy White House Down fares a little better than its serious-minded predecessor, Olympus Has Fallen
The Internship isn’t very good, but it’s so darn eager to please that it becomes almost impossible to dislike