At least Pixar’s talent for gags and visual styling will get adult audiences through this very familiar prequel

Joss Whedon brings a puckish wit to this modern-dress Shakespeare, but a dire miscasting of one of the romantic leads crashes the whole venture

Suspension of disbelief gets a workout as this caper starts pulling third-act twists out of its hat

A charming ensemble cast and offbeat sense of humor makes this “summer that changed everything” tale a winner

This pre-school "Avatar" offers the occasional surprise, but even little kids will feel déjà vu from the stock characters and situations

You keep thinking Katie Aselton’s Iraq vets vs. gal-pals thriller will explore larger ideas until it doesn't

Filmmakers Maiken Baird and Michelle Major are less interested in digging deep than they are in celebrating the sisters’ achievements and cultural impact -- which is just fine

Olivier Assayas explores the political passion of French teenagers coming of age three years after the May 1968 demonstrations

Robert Downey Jr. makes the witty banter and explosive action zing -- just don't worry too much about the convoluted plot

Dennis Quaid/Zac Efron farm movie feels like a series of note cards (“father-son conflict,” “dad’s mistress hits on son”) that never weave together to make a gripping plot

This story of an America-loving Pakistani radicalized by post-9/11 racism couldn’t be more zeitgeist-y, but the film is an overblown slog

And why director Ariel Vroman was willing to put the film on hold to get "Boardwalk Empire's" Michael Shannon to play the allegedmurderer of up to 250 people between 1948 and 1986