Yakin's slick direction, marked by quick cuts, unstinting energy and a lack of sentimentality, makes the action scenes satisfying. But he's a better director than writer.

None of this bears much or any resemblance to the real world, but the violence crunches, the editing snaps and the humorous one-liners pop at well-timed junctures.

The trouble with Safe is that you know where it's going every step of the way.

You can't help feeling that the movie owed its subject - and its audience - a bit more.

"Lockout"...is...as dopey an entertainment as imaginable, but it's also a reminder that the film's star, Guy Pearce, has always had great screen magnetism, to which he has now added a bedrock of muscle. Also: he can act.

"Lockout" never busts out of its cheesy concept.

I kept waiting for Nicolas Cage to show up. Or Katherine Heigl. Or, god forbid, both.

It has some good moments, but it goes on too long, and not enough happens that is likely to create new memories.

American Reunion, remarkably, might just be the funniest issue yet from the American Pie franchise factory.

American Reunion reminds us what we liked about the original: the way the movie sweetened its raunch to build a rooting interest in these characters.

This feeble followup to 2010's godawful Clash of the Titans sucketh the mighty big one.

Worthington remains a distinctly humourless hero, which makes you long for the likes of a prime-time Harrison Ford or Arnold Schwarzenegger, who knew how to make a fondue out of cheese.

While the special effects are sharper than in Clash of the Titans, the dialogue is equally uninspired.

Singh brings cheeky humor, an eccentric sensibility and an enchanting look to his re-imagined tale.

Who wants to see a fairy tale that weighs a ton? Mirror Mirror reflects badly on everyone involved.

'Mirror, Mirror' is a trippy version of the Snow White story.

Again and again Katniss rescues herself with resourcefulness, guts and true aim, a combination that makes her insistently watchable, despite Mr. Ross's soft touch and Ms. Lawrence's bland performance.

If, as the ads suggest, the whole world will be watching this, viewers will likely be satisfied with what they see.

If the series's legions of fans miss a detail here or a sub-plot there, they'll still recognize its bones and sinew, especially in Jennifer Lawrence's eagle-eyed heroine Katniss Everdeen.

None of it's new, but it's fun particularly because - like those Hammer films of yore - it peoples its great sets with solid actors.

Though Radcliffe occasionally seems too stiffly callow to be completely convincing in this grown-up role, the movie is a proficient thriller with a potential appeal beyond the star's fan-girl audience.

As a surprise entry in the mid-winter movie doldrums, "Chronicle" is a modest charmer.

"Chronicle" is an energetic hodgepodge that tweaks familiar conventions just enough to seem fresh. Forget the X-Men - these are iHeroes.