In Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Gordon Gekko is no longer a villain, not even an antihero, but the wise and heroic mentor
Resident Evil: Afterlife is a strange, strange film; dull and lifeless despite (and even during) frequent slo-mo action sequences
2010’s The Karate Kid is competently made and executed, with charismatic lead performances by Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith
The problem with The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is the use of magic: every other scene features wizards casting spells at each other
The Expendables is the 2010 equivalent of a 1985 Golan-Globus production, a Delta Force or Missing in Action or Cobra
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