A stoic detective teams with a young Edgar Allan Poe to catch a murderer in this well-made if ultimately unsatisfying mystery.
Swashbuckling Alice must save The Mad Hatter from depression – by travelling through time – in this not-so-wonderful sequel
Upside Down is the best kind of bad movie: it looks great, it’s never boring, and it wants you to like it
The King’s Speech is a great story, and like many great stories, it’s (mostly) true; Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are both excellent in their roles
Harry Potter by way of Ingmar Bergman: Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is rich and vibrant, dark yet sensitive
Alice in Wonderland for the Lord of the Rings/Chronicles of Narnia crowd, complete with a battlefield action climax
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a much tighter, carefully constructed, leisurely-but-fluidly paced adaptation of the J.K. Rowling books
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street just might be director Tim Burton’s masterpiece