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
The Lone Ranger is a western variation of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, which is no surprise given the studio and team behind it
The Bling Ring is a fascinating true crime story detailed through director Sofia Coppola’s trademark distant, chilly-cool eye
Trance is a diverting, even compelling experience from Danny Boyle that just about completely falls apart by the end
Despite the gloomy title, Star Trek Into Darkness is anything but: this is a big, bright, slam-bang action-adventure film
Action movies don’t get more preposterous than the latest entry in the Fast & the Furious franchise, a go-for-broke cartoon spectacle
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is simultaneously beautiful and ugly, exciting and sleepy, heartfelt and emotionally distant
Allen Hughes’ Broken City shows all the telltale signs of post-production tampering, which has resulted in a choppy film full of loose ends
Can’t-miss premise, intelligent script, taut direction, outstanding cast…where did Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep go wrong?
I Give it a Year charts the deterioration of a relationship, starting with minor quibbles and turning into some full-blown shouting matches
Snitch is a gritty crime tale made with some DIY flair by director Ric ROman Waugh but saddled with an outlandish central premise
Olympus Has Fallen is full of non-stop action and competently put together, even if the effects are sometimes rough
When you cast Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin as your leads, you don’t have to do much else
21 & Over is a none-too-subtle attempt to recreate The Hangover for the college-age crowd, from the writers of that film
Hyde Park on Hudson was directed by Roger Michell, who has put together a diverse portfolio over the years
Hitchcock is an especially disappointing film that doesn’t do justice to the titular director or his films, particularly Psycho
If The Last Stand is any indication, well, Arnold might have been better off staying in politics
A movie version of the Les Misérables has been rumored ever since the musical hit it big in the late 1980s, but has only now come to fruition