Contributor: Christopher Lyon

Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise retell the classic H.G. Wells tale in a scary, eye-popping aliens-attack adventure.

Writer/performer Tyler Perry adapts his hit play into a frenetically comedic drama about a woman abandoned by her husband after 18 years of marriage.

This visually playful, sweet-natured (spiritually skewed) story is about little kids and big money in Britain.

If your instincts are basically telling you to avoid this Sharon Stone sex thriller, you should thank them.

A popular video game becomes an ultra-violent, incomprehensible and instantly forgettable movie starring Christian Slater and Tara Reid.

Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid and Mandy Moore seek to skewer ‘American Idol,’ President Bush, and our endless global appetite for fame, fortune and shallow entertainment.

Ward Serrill’s documentary follows a Seattle high school girls’ basketball team over the course of six seasons. Among the many players, coaches and parents introduced, three rise to the surface.

Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn crash weddings to trick romantically vulnerable women into having sex with them. Does that sound like a party you want to RSVP for?

In warm family story, an 11-year-old spelling phenom from a rough neighborhood is lifted by hard work and a supportive community to compete in the national spelling bee.

The director of ‘Monster’s Ball’ and ‘Finding Neverland’ tells a trippy, sad, disorienting story about life, death and the sometimes complex series of thoughts and actions that lies in between.

A decade later, John Travolta returns as former mob collector Chili Palmer in this tepid, trashy sequel to ‘Get Shorty.’

The Man of Steel is back in a dazzlingly new old-fashioned hero tale that trumpets its connections to the greatest story ever told.

Denzel Washington stars in a sci-fi actioner that also wants to be a ripped-from-the-headlines terrorist flick, a time-travel love story and an FBI thriller.

Christopher Nolan proffers a tricky tale of two rival illusionists who commit themselves to topping and sabotaging each other in turn-of-the-last-century London.

The history of the CIA is told in the life of Edward Wilson, an absolute patriot whose commitment and secrecy make him a perfect spy—and a dismal husband and father.