Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Fans of this film’s predecessor will undoubtedly see this sequel (also directed by Michael Bay), if they haven’t already lined up at the first showing. The original cast returns to defend our planet from the Decepticons, only this time with more explosions, more fight sequences and TWO hot girls, each as charismatic as the robots…

My Sister’s Keeper

If you’d like a summer movie to sob through rather than laugh or hoot at, you can’t go wrong with Nick Cassavetes’ adaptation of Jodi Picoult’s best-selling novel. In it, a family of five finds their lives consumed with one child’s devastating cancer.

At 15, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) is dying, and her last chance…

Chéri

Lea, we’re told, has been a successful courtesan. Now retired in her middle years, she has enough spoils to live comfortably in Paris, and has never made the worst mistake: falling in love. But in a bit of impetuous, slightly spiteful silliness, Lea (Michelle Pfeiffer) seduces Chéri (Rupert Friend), the barely adult playboy son of…

Away We Go

Winsome charm, a marketable soundtrack, a supporting performance by Allison Janney … it’s all here. But if the teen parents of Juno were absurdly precocious, Away‘s parents-to-be are oddly underdeveloped — despite being years older.

Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) are an unmarried couple who want their child to have a fresh…

Whatever Works

In his new movie, Allen finally admits what we’ve suspected all along: He has the answer to everything. He leaves the explaining to his latest alter ego, Boris (Larry David), a self-proclaimed genius who waxes freely on the stupidity of everyone else on earth and the futility of it all. Them Boris takes in a…

Public Enemies

Michael Mann’s muddled bio-pic about 1930s bank-robber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) is long, slow and frequently confusing. In part, because it’s also the story of an FBI agent, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), assigned to bring in Dillinger — which is even more boring. And on the back-burner, Mann barely stirs a pot that contains narrative…