Reviews

Green Lantern – Due out Friday, this middling comic book adaptation shoehorns Ryan Reynolds into the role of the power ring-wielding hero, who flies about the

Every generation, it comes time for the cinema to teach us important lessons about life. One of these lessons is that loud music and dancing are the devil's

Fast Five – Vin Diesel and Paul Walker resume their homoerotic, nitro-fueled bromance in this car-centric action series, which caught a second wind after 2009's

Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Due out Friday, the summer blockbuster brings its relentless chain of maximum-budget explosions and insipid dialogue into your

Bridesmaids – The female-centric answer to The Hangover, the film aims to prove female-driven comedies can be every bit as disgusting and crass as those

Thor – Available in 3D as well as 2D, my favorite comic book movie of the summer wields its thunderous hammer in stunning high-definition. Director Kenneth

X-Men: First Class – Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn pulls out a defibrillator and revives the mummified X-Men series, scrapping the nonsense of the past

Prom – Aimee Teegarden, best known as the coach's daughter on Friday Night Lights, plays an eager go-getter who falls for an anti-establishment dude (Thomas

Gossip Girl: Season 4 – The CW soap opera about the comings and goings of Manhattan elites ditches Taylor Momsen and Jessica Szohr in favor of more screentime

The Bang Bang Club – Ryan Phillippe plays one of four photojournalists take to strife-torn South Africa in the early 1990s to make names for themselves and

If Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Cera arm-wrestled, no one would win and daffodils would pop up from the table. This is actually my way of complimenting both

Super – The indie-film answer to last year's sensational Kick-Ass star's The Office's Rainn Wilson as a sad-sack restaurant worker who becomes a masked

I believe it was Socrates who once advised “Never pee into a public fountain while wishing you had the life of a friend who’s peeing next to you, lest you run

Ferris Bueller's Day Off: 25th Anniversary Blu-ray – In 1986, back when Matthew Broderick was capable of starring in good movies, this John Hughes-directed gem

Well, they got Crazy and Stupid right. My only suggestion to make the title more accurate is to change Love to Hate. A romantic comedy with too many

Source Code – In this drama, a sci-fi take on the Groundhog Day concept, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a war vet who is locked in a chamber and tasked to travel back in

Justin Timberlake definitively proves he’s a talented actor in Friends with Benefits, given the fact that his character is only an extreme mega-douchebag,

Oh, this final Harry Potter movie is a tearjerker indeed. The plucky underdog, whose struggles you’ve followed through seven previous films, finally gets his

The Lincoln Lawyer – Matthew McConaughey stars as a constantly-in-motion lawyer who does the police department's work for it, spending much of his time working

If Alfred Hitchcock lived in our time, had an eighth of his talent and was obsessed with blunt sex jokes, Horrible Bosses is exactly the movie he would make.

Beastly – This one's more notable for its odd and surprisingly high-profile supporting cast (Neil Patrick Harris, Mary-Kate Olsen and Peter Krause) than its

Copying off the paper of Bad Santa, and even going so far as to swipe a couple of its punch lines, Bad Teacher would seem to be doomed because its parts aren’t

The Adjustment Bureau – Matt Damon takes on a role that blends his Jason Bourne and Will Hunting qualities, playing a politician who tangles with a tapestry of

Hall Pass – Shattering his typecast as a care-free slacker, Owen Wilson plays a pudgy, overweight and unconfident family man whose wife (Jenna Fischer) gives

Just Go With It – In this lame romantic comedy that manages to stretch the silly standards of the genre past their breaking point, Adam Sandler plays a wealthy

Biutiful – In a role that earned him a best actor Oscar nomination – something that rarely happens in a foreign language film – Javier Bardem plays a Barcelona

Reunion movies, which exist only to reunite main characters from good movies so they can try to recapture the lightning that has long left the bottle, are

The Roommate — Leighton Meester ditches her party girl persona to play a psychopath who becomes obsessed with her college roomie (Minka Kelly), working behind

The Mechanic — Continuing to play the same stoic, determined action hero archetype in each movie, Jason Statham stars in a remake of a 1972 Charles Bronson

Blue Valentine – I’m ashamed of myself for not having seen this movie before I put together my top 10 list last year, because it definitely would have cracked

Usually Kate Hudson’s appearance in the cast is a sparkly-lip-glossed kiss of death for a romantic comedy. Reading off her filmography causes me physical pain.

The Green Hornet — Seth Rogen slims down to play a newspaper-owning playboy who becomes masked vigilante, with Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou as his

South Park: Season 14 – While other long-running animated satires such as The Simpsons have long been in decline, South Park rolls along with every bit as much

The King’s Speech – The best picture Oscar winner gets a deserved royal treatment on Blu-ray, with a making-of documentary, archival footage of the true story

Country Strong – Gwyneth Paltrow re-introduces herself as a cowgirl crooner in this music-heavy melodrama, which can be described as a low-rent Walk the Line.

I’ve got a 40 in my hand, and I’m pouring it out on the pavement in remembrance of the indie sensation that was Greta Gerwig. Her proverbial sellout starring

Tangled – You have to hand it to Disney for attempting to compete against DreamWorks and Pixar in the realm of computer animation, even though the studio

One of the ways Call of Duty is superior to life is its respawn feature. When you die, you’re just right back at it a few seconds later. A little wiser and more

Black Swan – Darren Aronofsky’s shattering ballet drama combines high art and cheesy exploitation into an overpowering dynamo. Natalie Portman turns in a

How Do You Know — After a lengthy layoff, Reese Witherspoon jumps back into the romantic comedy game as a pro softball player forced into retirement who takes

The Fighter – Mark Wahlberg stars in this Rocky-like true story as struggling boxer Micky Ward, who battles through nonstop adversity to reach a title shot.

Amanda Seyfried’s eyes are so big that when she confronts the Big Bad Wolf, he’s the one who says, “What big eyes you have!” They are so big that they’re

Morning Glory – Rachel McAdams plays a stressed-out network TV morning show producer who tries to make her dysfunctional program work. Her crusty, disgruntled

You wouldn’t know it because your life is unimportant and you lack tiger blood and Adonis DNA, but a gang of business suit-wearing agents with magic fedoras

Bambi Diamond Edition Blu-ray – The 1942 classic trots onto Blu-ray, continuing Disney’s excellent track record of creating stunning versions of its animated

There’s this new documentary out, called Drive Angry 3D. No doubt recorded with a system of hidden cameras, surveillance film and superbly drawn animation by

Due Date – Director Todd Phillips (The Hangover) spins another wildly funny sophomoric tale, this one a rip-off of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Robert Downey

Unstoppable – Denzel Washington and Chris Pine star as a pair of mismatched train operators who find themselves who race to save a small town from a runaway

Being a fan of Adam Sandler movies is a lot like being a fan of the Baltimore Orioles. They let you down every year without fail, yet you retain your fandom and

Life as We Know It – Romantic comedy machine Katherine Heigl juggles relationships with Josh Duhamel and Josh Lucas in this head-scratchingly bizarre tale.