Your Highness’ isn’t just a bad movie, it’s ‘the’ bad movie — a work of ur-awfulness, counterbrilliance and antigenius
Reviews
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
Limitless Review: Wall Street on Steroids
Granted extraordinary intelligence by a black-market drug in Limitless, Bradley Cooper’s character decides the best use of his new powers is corporate raiding. Is there an originality pill he could’ve taken instead
Win Win: Paul Giamatti Can’t Lose
In this tale of a suburban schlub in need of redemption, Paul Giamatti and writer/director Thomas McCarthy craft a film that’s warm, edgy and — you guessed it — winning
Jane Eyre: Mamma Mia, a Star Is Born!
This remake of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre hits the jackpot with Mia Wasikowska
Battle Los Angeles: A Shaky, Breaky Mess
What with the jittering camera aesthetic, clunky script, and creaky clichés, Battle Los Angeles won’t live long in the memory
Red Riding Hood: My, What a Ridiculous Plot You Have!
A sexed-up, dumbed-down cross between the children’s fairy tale and ‘The Wolfman,’ ‘Red Riding Hood’ is mostly a snack for tweens between meals of ‘Twilight’
The Adjustment Bureau: Matt Damon’s Battle of the Angels
George Nolfi’s up-and-down movie, The Adjustment Bureau, sees two lovers who fight the system to forge their own destiny together after they determine the random occurrences in life aren’t so random