Review: Brooklyn's Finest Is Just So-So
Review in a Hurry: The lives of three troubled law enforcement officers intersect in another tale of crime and corruption in NYC. But the A-list cast can't elevate Brooklyn's Finest...

Review: Cop Out a Dirty Funny Spoofy Buddy Movie
Review in a Hurry: Too-fat-to-fly director Kevin Smith steps outside his normal comfort zone with a tribute to the cop-buddy comedies of the '80s, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan. While...

Review: The Crazies a Zombie Flick With Some Brains
Review in a Hurry: This remake of George A. Romero's 1973 not-quite-a-zombie flick is more effective as a thrill ride than as a truly scary experience. Plus, seeing Timothy Olyphant and Radha...

Review: Shutter Island Insanely Bad
Review in a Hurry: Martin Scorsese strands Leonardo DiCaprio with a bad Boston accent on a creepy island in the '50s, looking for an escaped mental patient and finding more than he bargained...

Review: The Ghost Writer a Clever Thriller With Real-World Twists
Review in a Hurry: Yep, Roman Polanski's still got it. With dry humor and expertly timed suspense, the director throws Ewan McGregor into a conspiracy theory plot involving a Tony Blair-like...

Review: Valentine's Day Stuffs Too Many Stars Into a Movie-Shaped Box
Review in a Hurry: So many stars go whizzing by, the flick is more like Space Mountain: No cohesive story, but kinda fun nonetheless. The Bigger Picture: Meet Liz (Anne Hathaway), a...

Reviews: The Lightning Thief a Herculean Bore
Review in a Hurry: Greek gods may be cool right now, but even hardcore mythology geeks—and fans of the popular Percy Jackson kids' books—will have a tough time putting up with this...

Review: The Wolfman a Gleeful, Gothy Gorefest
Review in a Hurry: Benicio Del Toro gets hairier and crazier than usual as Lawrence Talbot, an Anglo-American actor and unlikely spawn of Anthony Hopkins, who becomes particularly dangerous,...

Review: Dear John, Like Most Relationships, Ends Badly
Review in a Hurry: From sensitive, boring director Lasse Hallstrom (The Shipping News, An Unfinished Life) comes a love story featuring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried as the two most perfect...

Review: Look Out, From Paris with Love Has a Gun!
Review in a Hurry: If you were to take From Paris with Love seriously, it'd be easy to be offended by its portrayal of women, minorities, Muslims, Asians, and anyone who isn't a big, loud...

Review: When in Rome—or Anywhere Else—Don't See This Movie
Review in a Hurry: This Kristen Bell-Josh Duhamel romcom was mounted with a millions-dollar budget, gorgeous locations in Rome and New York City, and a heavy-duty cast. Yet the filmmakers ended up...

Review: Edge of Darkness Is Mad Mel at His Maddest
Review in a Hurry: Five years after last appearing onscreen (as a jokey cameo in Paparazzi), Mad Mel Gibson is back, and as one might expect, he's brought with him a heaping helping of brutal...

Review: Extraordinary Measures Is Extra Ordinary
Review in a Hurry: It's tough to make a compelling movie about enzyme synthesis, even when you have the added attraction of Harrison Ford in full caricature mode. Save for his star power, this...

Review: Legion Easily the Year's Best Movie About Badass Angels and God-Zombies
Review in a Hurry: Angels with guns! Wing-fu! God-zombies! When Legion tries to take these kinds of things too seriously, it falters, but mostly it embraces the inner cheese. The Bigger...

Review: The Tooth Fairy Not Painful, but Lacks Bite
Review in a Hurry: It smells like The Rock is cooking a warmed-over Game Plan, as Dwayne Johnson plays a second-rate hockey player working night shifts as an actual tooth fairy and managing a...

Review: An Education Nothing But Charming
Review in a Hurry: Charming twentysomething English actress Carey Mulligan gives a charming, breakthrough performance as Jenny, a teenager in 1960s England who must choose between the stuffiness...

Review: Kung Fu + Jesus + The Road = Book of Eli
Review in a Hurry: Remember how, when you were watching The Road, you thought to yourself, "This needs more kung fu and Jesus"? God, and the Hughes brothers, heard your prayers. Denzel...

Review: Move Away from The Spy Next Door
Review in a Hurry: Someone must have told Jackie Chan that part of being a Hollywood action star is that you eventually have to do a family movie in which precocious kids make you appear totally...

Review: Leap Year a Blah Rom-Com—Except for How Amy Adams Always Sparkles
Review in a Hurry: An uptight East Coaster (Amy Adams) meets a cranky Irish guy in the bonnie countryside and we all get another formulatic rom-com. The only bright spot in this formulaic rom-com...