Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Happening

When people mysteriously begin to commit suicide en masse, there’s no obvious explanation. Is it a terrorist attack? Or could …

Drama, Sports
ExtremeDays

Lose the R-rated content and you can think of “ExtremeDays” as a mixture of “Road Rules” and “Road Trip”.

Drama
Crazy in Alabama

Disparate plots intertwine in this quirky directorial debut by Antonio Banderas. It’s 1965, and as the movie begins, Lucille tells …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
My Bloody Valentine

Advertised as a daring date movie, this 3-D updating of a 1980s slasher flick delivers hearts aplenty. But you already …

Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Penelope

Why can’t a spunky, intelligent 25-year-old like Penelope find a suitor who’s willing to become her husband? The answer is …

Drama, Horror
Texas Chainsaw

Leatherface somehow manages to become the hero of this fetid franchise continuation of a bloody cinematic tradition … nearly four …

Drama
Babel

In four interlocking stories from around the globe, Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu drenches the screen in common sorrows—and explicit …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Turistas

Just replace sickening torture with nauseating surgeries and it’s ‘Hostel’ in a Brazilian jungle.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Underworld

Two households of selfsame grotesquerie—werewolf and vampire—sans gentility, have spilt their blood in hyper-stylized glee, for what seems to all …

Drama
Promised Land

This heartland tale of fracking, farming and fibbing drills down on its message … but does it strike oil?

Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Village

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller features a puritanical village isolated from neighboring towns by fiercly foreboding woods.

Drama
On the Road

Kristen Stewart joins the ensemble cast in this adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s influential 1947 novel about a young writer’s lust …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Jack Reacher

The tagline for this Tom Cruise crimefest tells us that “The law has limits. He does not.” As if that’s …

Drama, Mystery/Suspense, War
Zero Dark Thirty

The Hurt Locker’s Kathryn Bigelow tracks down Osama bin Laden, step by bloody step. And when the hunt’s done, she …

Drama, Romance
Amour

Austrian director Michael Haneke is known for injecting jarring subject matter into his films. Amour will do nothing to amend …