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Kevin Smith’s latest potty-mouthed romantic comedy is a little contrived, but is helped by great chemistry between Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks.

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Featuring lots of tough guys talking trash and one-upping each other, Guy Ritchie’s latest gangster ensemeble is more of he same, only a little more stale.

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Jonathan Demme’s verite-styled wedding flick is a subtle character piece with an effective Anne Hathaway and family.

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With the help of a very likable Josh Brolin, Oliver Stone pains an extraordinarily devastating portrait of an empty, sad man. Beware; not a satire.

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe turn in fine performances in a Middle Eastern-set Ridley Scott film that can’t seem to muster any emotional dynamics.

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Bill Maher leads the attack on Christianity in this agnos-terrific documentary that never gets beyond a bunch of talking heads.

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An epidemic of blindness takes over an unnamed city in this hard-to-swallow vision from director Fernando Meirelles. Starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo.

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This Ed Harris pet project is a traditional Western in every sense of the word, from its themes right down to the gorgeous “magic hour”-shot cinematography.

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Rehashed, warmed-over bullshit masquerading as modern political commentray for the sake of action. Starring Shia LaBeouf.

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Director Clark Gregg has a hard time with a wildly varying tone, but this Chuck Palahniuk adaptation starring Sam Rockwell doesn’t completely choke.

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Ricky Gervais sees dead people and is annoyed. He also makes a surprisingly good leading man in this fun and formulaic romantic comedy.

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Joel and Ethan Coen take 90 minutes to build their brand of absurdity to a fever pitch and name Clooney, Pitt, McDormand, and Malkovich as co-conspirators.

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James Marsh’s documentary about a Frenchman’s riduculously dangerous and illegal highwire walk between the Twin Towers in 1974 is otherworldly. Go see it now.

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Steve Coogan tries very hard to elevate this parody beyond a one-note joke, but it is never quite as funny as it should be.

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