Forget character and dialogue. In a movie like Fast Five it’s the action, not the acting, that matters
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Madea’s Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry’s Drag Ball
Tyler Perry’s latest film looks to continue his streak as the most powerful star whose movies most American moviegoers have never seen
Water for Elephants Review: Under the Big Top with Reese and RPattz
The movie is a flashback to Hollywood’s midcentury, when sentimental best-sellers routinely became films of high purpose
Scream 4 — The Ultimate Shriekquel
Still an old-fashioned whodunit in which people get scared over the phone and killed in person
Rio: Birds of a Fabulous Feather
A high-flying romp that’s sunny enough to keep kids enchanted and their parents engrossed
The Conspirator Revisits a Pivotal Chapter of American Law and War
Director Robert Redford delves into the case behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Your Highness: The Ultimate in Lowness
Your Highness’ isn’t just a bad movie, it’s ‘the’ bad movie — a work of ur-awfulness, counterbrilliance and antigenius
Home-Schooling an Assassin: A Hit-or-Miss Hanna
Over-eager in almost every way, Joe Wright’s thriller keeps pressing scenes of deliberate, off-putting weirdness
Source Code: A Sci-Fi Groundhog Day, with Bombs
Duncan Jones played with twisted realities in “Moon.” Now he’s back, scrambling up the timeline with “Source Code:” The story of a military man who can relive the last eight minutes of another’s life, on the hunt for a train bomber
Heartbreaking Trust: A 14-Year-Old Star Is Born
Director David Schwimmer’s grim story of Internet-based pedophilia is hard to watch but impossible to ignore
Sucker Punch: Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid
Director Zack Snyder’s limp stab at girl-power fantasia wusses out on divine delirium
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Second Time Is Charming
The second installment of the surprise hit Wimpy Kid series is warm, wry and better or at least nicer than the book
Paul Review: E.T. with a Potty Mouth
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen have amiable fun skewering sci-fi clichés, but Paul never quite lives up to their talents