Once again, Bill Condon’s Herculean efforts make "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2" far more palatable than it deserves to be

Indie charmer about a young actress’ relationship with an elderly widow is as far from “Tuesdays with Morrie” as you can get

Daniel Day-Lewis, with the help of Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, converts the mythic Great Emancipator into a flesh-and-blood human being

Wu-Tang Clan co-founder’s love for the kung fu genre doesn’t translate into excitement in his lackluster directorial debut

Tobey Maguire heads a cast of performers that deserve better than this morality play about jerks acting like jerks

John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman lead a talented voice cast in this tale of videogame characters who want to be more than the sum of their programming

The surfing footage is breathtaking, but Gerard Butler and company can’t keep this clichéd biopic afloat

There are a half-dozen decent scares in this new sequel, but boy do they make you wait to get to them

For James Patterson’s best-selling cop-shrink to become a new, rebooted action franchise, someone more dynamic than Tyler Perry needs to star

Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to “In Bruges” is too self-aware by half, but the brilliant ensemble cast keeps the bloody laughs coming

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