Horrible Bosses is an engaging and relevant comedy that’s especially fun, at least most of the way – and the cast is dynamite
Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre is the kind of literate, refined production that might be more at home in a BBC miniseries
Kuky se vrací (Kooky) follows the adventures an endearing pink doll struggling to find his way home
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is a wholly satisfying conclusion to the decade-long Harry Potter franchise
Bridesmaids teams producer Judd Apatow with Freaks and Geeks co-creator Paul Feig for a female-centric take on his usual rowdy antics
Hanna litters the road with a number of subtle pop culture references, dark humor, and just a slightly twisted sensibility
Surviving Life is Švankmajer’s most accessible work, from the style of animation to the fairly straightforward narrative
It takes some gumption to title your film First Class, but that’s exactly what Matthew Vaughn has delivered with his dynamite X-Men prequel
Občanský průkaz (Identity Card) made a big splash with Czech critics and audiences when it opened locally last fall
Tetro was worth the wait: this is Coppola’s best work as a director in 20 years, since Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Thor, a big-screen adaptation of the Marvel comic about the Norse god of thunder, comes with unusually high pedigree; not every comic book movie is
Duncan Jones brings an all-too-welcome level of thought and intelligence to the sci-fi thriller Source Code
Like most of director Sofia Coppola’s work, Somewhere is slow and pretentious and ultimately worthwhile
Peter Weir’s The Way Back is a great story, well-told, presenting a grueling experience in a respectable but palatable manner
True Grit, a new western from the Coen Brothers, is more or less as good as Henry Hathaway’s 1969 original starring John Wayne
127 Hours is the fascinating true story of Aron Ralston, a mechanical engineer and adventurer who went hiking alone and got stuck in a canyon
Megamind is a spoof of superhero films, a genre pioneered in animation by Pixar’s The Incredibles
Some may leave Anton Corbijn’s The American unsatisfied; what’s all this symbolism and philosophy doing in my George Clooney thriller?
Protektor, a period drama set before and during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, nearly swept the 2010 Czech Lion awards
Salt is a breathless, expertly-composed thriller with one nagging flaw: it’s absolutely ridiculous
Predators is a ridiculously entertaining ride, a self-knowing but straight-faced throwback to the days of over-the-top 80s machismo and 70s grindhouse films
Geeen Zone is a dense and effective political thriller about the search for WMDs in newly-liberated 2003 Iraq
Kick-Ass works on multiple levels, thanks to a loving, authentic feel for the genre and fluid direction by Vaughn
The Road is cold, miserable, relentlessly grim; there’s no joy and little hope in this post-apocalyptic tale