Action/Adventure, Drama
Transporter 2

It’s another silly, incoherent action movie, but with an odd twist of integrity.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

The Ghost Rider’s back, still, er, burning rubber and firing on all cylinders. Will this franchise ever go up in …

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Murder by Numbers

An intelligent loner and a bored rich kid got lost somewhere along the path to manhood. And the result is …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Having just read The Hobbit again, this time with my young son, I can with fresh perspective say that Jackson …

Comedy, Drama
Saving Mr. Banks

Saving Mr. Banks has scattered content concerns. But it does fly. It has the power to touch both the Travers …

Comedy, Drama
American Hustle

This farcically dark dramedy is a fictionalized (and sensationalized) imagining of what might have gone on behind the scenes in …

Drama
Uptown Girls

The trailer for this movie is tighter, better and more upbeat than the 95-minute feature.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sports
Supercross: The Movie

A racing fan’s big-screen reward? Or just brazen advertising designed to boost raceway attendance?

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Volcano

After a series of geological murmurs, downtown L.A. is sent into cardiac arrest when a volcano erupts from the La …

Action/Adventure, Drama
DOA: Dead or Alive

Three barely clad women compete in a martial arts contest against the world’s best fighters.

Comedy, Drama
Magic Mike

Channing Tatum’s turn as “Magic Mike” hints at the dark side of male stripping. Mostly, though, it just shows him …

Comedy, Drama, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Kid

An abrasive, cynical, self-centered Los Angeles image consultant has his world turned upside down when his 8-year-old self inexplicably appears …

Drama, Musical
Inside Llewyn Davis

Despite its angsty pretensions, Inside Llewyn Davis remains merely a story without a destination, a bleak portrait of a bleak …

Drama, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

A Scottish lad finds a barnacle-encrusted egg and becomes a daddy … to the Loch Ness Monster.

Comedy, Drama
A Serious Man

While not autobiographical in any specific sense, A Serious Man examines the Coen brothers’ roots with a deconstructing—and predictably quirky—look …