With wit, sex, smarts and excitement all on display, this franchise entry proves that after 50 years, James Bond still has a license to thrill

Unless you’re dying to watch Elvis’ granddaughter make out with Kylie Minogue, there’s not much to recommend "Jack and Diane"

Despite some forays toward melodrama, a fine ensemble of actors keeps this tale of the lives and loves of musicians in tune

This teen romp pales next to the movies that influenced it, but there are enough laughs to fill your plastic jack-o’-lantern

The Wachowskis’ and Tom Tykwer’s time-spanning epic offers a feast for the eyes and ears, but the emotional payoffs just aren’t there

The intimate scenes between John Hawkes and Helen Hunt make the creaky comedy bits with a priestly William H. Macy worth enduring

Whatever your feelings about Ayn Rand’s philosophies, the sermonizing and speechifying runs thick in this second installment

Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron grunt and grope their way through a movie that should have been more serious — or way more campy

Liam Neeson’s bad-ass ex-CIA agent returns in a less plausible and far less thrilling second go-round

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s young-Bruce-Willis makeup is never not distracting in Rian Johnson’s latest

Stirring documentary connects the dots between ACT UP’s media-savvy protests and the creation of the “cocktail” that made AIDS less of a death sentence

A second attempt at adapting the violent British comic book isn’t helped by the obvious comparisons to the recent “The Raid: Redemption”