World premiere audience snickers as Naomi Watts and Robin Wright play best friends who romp in the surf — and with each other's sons

Private eye Mark Wahlberg gets snarled in NYC mayor Russell Crowe’s ambitions, but the promising script’s ballot box is overstuffed

This cops-and-mobsters movie starring Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling goes nowhere new, but there’s enough period gloss and violent verve to keep it entertaining

Andy Garcia and Forest Whitaker star in a conspiracy drama whose big ideas are undercut by cheeseball, direct-to-DVD–worthy writing and directing

The occasional moments of charm in this Billy Crystal-Bette Midler vehicle are buried in a reactionary “Grandfather Knows Best, Every Single Time” mentality

Judd Apatow’s one-liners are as sharp as ever, but this midlife-crisis comedy reveals a worldview that feels a little precious and pampered

Kathryn Bigelow’s dissection of the hunt for Osama bin Laden starts strong and features memorable performances but fizzles a bit by the time boots hit the ground

Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant give powerful, heartbreaking performances, but neither they nor the film give in to sentimentality

A confluence of bad decisions and worse performances make this a punishing endurance test -- and Anne Hathway is so singularly awful, she’s got the Oscar wrapped up

The makers of this Gerard Butler atrocity deserve red cards for idiocy and inanity

Animated adventure creates a wondrous world of imaginary titans, then strands them in an all-too-earthbound story

Only legendary indie actress Parker Posey shines in this otherwise tepid comedy set in the corporate world of supermarkets