AMC Aventura 24

Babylon A.D.

Adapted from Maurice C Dantec’s cult 1999 novel ‘Babylon Babies’, this post-apocalyptic sci-fi film began life as un film de Mathieu KassovitzNicolas Cage stars a hit man who develops a crisis of conscience in the Pang brothers' remake of their 1999 film.

College

In what any student of Animal House will recognize as a boneheaded move, three prefrosh decide to spend their college visit crashing at a discipline-resistant frat, which...

The Dark Knight

Nolan’s sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins internalizes the schism between serious aims and summer-movie duties. The problem isn’t the admittedly jaw-dropping Sturm...

Death Note: The Last Name

The madness and mayhem continue when a singer tries to impress the first Death Note’s resident folk hero by murdering some bad guys.

Death Race

It would take a team of semioticians to explain why Statham is somehow more compelling when obscured by an iron mask. But he is, as “Frankenstein,” this vicious thriller’s Web-celeb racer,...

Disaster Movie

At least the title is partly true: This would-be satire is indeed a disaster. Scary Movie creators Friedberg and Seltzer return to their hit-or-miss formula of bite-sized...

Hamlet 2

Coogan is one of those actors you really want to love. Every clip from his British television work hints that he’s got something to offer. And yet, in his films (Around the...

Journey to the Center of the Earth
Pat Boone gives this colourful, exciting story its few nauseating moments (as when he sings 'My Heart's in the Highlands')....

Kung Fu Panda: The IMAX Experience

Mamma Mia!
Throughout the screening of ‘Mamma Mia!’ I kept clocking the security guard in the corner. What was he thinking, I wondered, as Pierce BrosnanBlake Lively’s gossip girl far eclipses Will Ferrell is 41. Assessing his emotional age from comedy to comedy is also fairly easy:...

The House Bunny

Faris, last seen through a haze of pot smoke in Smiley Face, plays dizzy dolls as expertly as Lucille Ball and Marilyn Monroe. If Faris’s movies fail her total...

The Longshots

Based on a true story, The Longshots has all the elements of a classic feel-good sports film: the lovable team of misfits, the scrappy girl, the burned-out ex-player...

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Here’s ample proof of the unwritten rule that second sequels always suck. This time out, the husband-and-wife adventurers battle an ancient Chinese emperor revived from a curse that turned him...

Pineapple Express

The most acclaimed filmmaker to join the Apatow stable, David Gordon Green has a keen eye for landscapes and a...

Traitor

One of those functional thrillers designed to hijack jihad paranoia and sell it back as entertainment, Jeffrey NachmanoffWoody Allen