Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Sports
Rollerball

Aimed at the same undemanding audience that ate up 1987’s ‘The Running Man,’ this PG-13 flick is an ear-splitting cinematic …

Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Her

Those are vastly important lessons for all of us as we nudge our way ever deeper into more and more …

Comedy
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Pics like Anchorman 2 feel more like a Gatling gun barrage of joke-a-second absurdities and crude nonsense.

Comedy, Kids
Daddy Day Care

The main message of Daddy Day Care is that kids shouldn’t be forced to behave like miniature adults.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Haunting in Connecticut

This supposedly true story about restless spirits is based on a cable-channel docudrama which was based on a book which …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Rush Hour 2

The action picks up where the first movie left off. That might seem an obvious thing to say, but these …

Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the Land of Women

Melancholy and moral messes dog Adam Brody ‘In the Land of Women’ as he journeys from ‘The O.C.’ to Michigan—to …

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 …

Animation, Kids
The Jungle Book 2

Disney’s desperation and contempt for long-time fans is amazing. The Jungle Book 2 is not.

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 …

Comedy, Drama
American Hustle

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

Comedy
A Madea Christmas

I’m not really buying the “whole family” fun line, not with 100+ profanities, among other coarseness.

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 …

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 …