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Review in a Hurry: Though it's not as obnoxious as the trailers might imply, the latest animated adventures of a motley mammalian menagerie from prehistoric times (Ray Romano and Queen Latifah...

Review in a Hurry: Johnny Depp and Christian Bale star in a karaoke version of a gangster epic. You'll recognize the melancholy tones, but the whole thing is off-key and forced. The...

Review in a Hurry: In the latest Iraq War movie...Wait, don't leave! This one's actually good, we promise! Eschewing political commentary for nerve-rattling suspense, director Kathryn...

Review in a Hurry: An uneven disease-of-the-week pic elevated by an A-list cast, with Abigail Breslin as a tween seeking medical emancipation after her body's repeatedly used to treat her...

Review in a Hurry: It's the exact same movie as the first Transformers, only more—more robots, more glorious violence, more Megan Fox (and Isabel Lucas) glamour shots, more really...

Review in a Hurry: Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds get naked. Need any other reason to see this cinematic matrimony of The Devil Wears Prada and Meet the Parents? Sweet, silly Proposal...

Review in a Hurry: Cavemen Jack Black and Michael Cera get their cheetah cloths in a twist about what a bummer ancient history is. No wheels, no fire, no floss. The comedy duo make like...

Review in a Hurry: Whatever Works is another inconsequential Woody Allen film about an older man (Larry David) falling in love with a dangerously young woman (Evan Rachel Wood). It has some...

Review in a Hurry: You might want to bring your own pixie dust and magic wand. This Eddie Murphy comedy, about a financial exec who finds success in his daughter's make-believe world, could...

Review in a Hurry: Anyone expecting a typical big-budget Tony Scott action movie should be forewarned—about 80 percent of this subway heist flick consists of close-ups on John Travolta and...

Review in A Hurry: Yes! Clone-wars! Sad Space men! Philosophical musings on the enduring nature of man's soul! Sam Rockwell gives a virtuoso performance in this small scale but ambitious story...

Review in a Hurry: It has a couple of stand-out characters in Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis, and enough T-shirt-worthy catchphrases to keep the chuckles coming, but for all the outrageousness and...

Review in a Hurry: Will Ferrell justifies his outsized fame in this surprisingly bizarre and dirty adaptation of the campy '70s TV time-travel classic. The Bigger Picture: I know...

Review in a Hurry: If you can get past the initial smugness, there's a refreshing amount of charm and insight to be found in director Sam Mendes' travelogue of two expectant parents (John...

Review in a Hurry: She may be past her big and fat days, but Nia Vardalos is still Greek and looking for a wedding. Sadly, this attempt at a romantic comedy comeback fails her on every...

Review in a Hurry: If you think eager-beaver kid plus grumpy geezer equals just another mismatched-buddy flick, then you don't know Pixar very well. The celebrated animation studio reaches...

Review in a Hurry: While you wait patiently for Sam Raimi to make Evil Dead 4, he gives you the next best thing: Alison Lohman taking a Bruce Campbell-style beatdown all movie long at the hands of...

Review in a Hurry: It's hard these days for movies to give you the type of unspoiled fun that Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian does. Such a simple idea—statues, fossils and...

Review in a Hurry: Much to nobody's shock, director McG's new addition to the killer-robot franchise isn't as good as the first three. To the surprise of many, however, it's still...

Review in a Hurry: The recent dancicals fad has lead to the inevitable Wayans-brand spoof, packed with five-minutes-ago gags. Scary Movie regular Anna Faris is now too famous for this, so newcomer...

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There are a million interesting things about 1930s gangster folk hero John Dillinger, from his expert manipulation of the press to his trick of robbing banks and letting the customers keep their money. But somehow Michael Mann, who has made an entire movie about Dillinger, IPublic EnemiesI, seems interested in none of it.

Living in a world dominated by over-engineered, cynically manufactured disposable pop its easy to forget that the more pure origins of modern music are barely half a century old. Back in the 60s, rock roll simultaneously shocked and breathed new life in to a stuffy post war populace. iThe Boat That Rockedi is a gleeful love letter to a time when pop music first exploded and became the soundtrack to a new generation.

Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girls life. The parents desperate decision raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship.

ITransformers: Revenge of the FallenI is an exhausting experience. Its an assault on the senses, a visual blur of incomprehensible, never-ending action. Its like standing in the middle of a dust storm and opening your eyes to let the grit pour in. Car parts fly around the screen as if in a scrap metal tornado, a tornado which were told is a group of robots beating the hell out of each other, but without a pause button its impossible to comprehend where one robots fist ends and the others face begins.

Lazy, transparent, disposable and at its worst, boring, IIce Age: Dawn Of The DinosaursI is a sometimes beautiful piece of animation consistently ruined by unfocused directing, bizarre editing choices, phoned-in voice acting, and a script which is neither witty nor filled with momentum

Youll find a few laughs in IYear OneI. A scene in which Jack and Michael ride on their first ever wheeled conveyance as if its a roller coaster is clever and sure to get laughs as are most of Platts half-whispered, high-pitched monologues. Its just not enough.

Director Kathryn Bigelows Iraq war movie ignores almost the usual trappings of the by now well traveled modern desert warfare genre in the process accomplishes something almost none of those other movies was capable of: Its good.

As a whole IWhatever WorksI is a fun and funny sit, a dose of old-school Allen he wrote the script around the same time as IAnnie HallI ladled on top of a new New York that, after all these years, still needs him.

Sam Bell is nearing the end of his contract with Lunar. Hes been a faithful employee for 3 long years. His home has been Selene, a moon base where he has spent his days alone, mining Helium 3. The precious gas holds the key to reversing the Earths energy crisis.

IThe ProposalI is exactly what you expect it to be, then again maybe its not. All the usual romantic comedy clichs are present, and all the usual characters are too. So by the way, are the usual actors with Sandra Bullock doing yet another rom-com and the ever talented Ryan Reynolds drifting further and further away from the interesting films he should be doing into the Matthew McConaughey vortex of endless paychecks, shirtless moments, and critical scorn.

IThe Taking of Pelham 1 2 3I is a conversation, a few words exchanged between two men thrust into a high-pressure situation. Theres not much more to IPelhamI than that, not even enough really, to fill out the minimum ninety minutes necessary for any major Hollywood movie. Director Tony Scott compensates, by stuffing the moments between their words with trippy, stylistic cityscapes which have absolutely nothing to do with whats going on in the story except as a time killer.

The best that can be said for IImagine ThatI is that its inoffensive even if Haden Churchs Whitefeather comes pretty close, though kids will surely grow restless with all the shots of stock graphs and chatter about oil pipelines in the Middle East

Not quite a true polemic, and building slowly to its heady steam of outrage, IFood Inc.I is a call to arms that slips into you slowly, until at the end youre convinced youll never eat another french fry that you didnt see cooked with your own eyes. Its the same effect that IFast Food NationI, IOmnivores DilemmaI and other books and articles have had on millions of readers, but if IFood Inc.I can help spread the message that our food system needs serious overhaul, then more power to it

Watching Will Ferrell run away from herky-jerky, stop-motion dinosaurs is a concept that is, inherently funny. Unfortunately director Brad Silberling doesnt use stop-motion dinosaurs or anything else that might be regarded as a sight-gag in his attempt to turn the extremely low-budget, classic Saturday morning television series ILand of the LostI into a full-blown comedy. Instead he buries his movie in the latest of high-tech wizardry and, unexpectedly, treats the whole Land of the Lost mythos in a fairly businesslike fashion.

theres no reason to watch this movie when its all done better in IMy Big Fat Greek WeddingI, or in virtually any other movie in which someone gets their groove back. The primary crime of IMy Life in RuinsI isnt that its unoriginal, but that it doesnt even try.

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