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Writer/director Joss Whedon delivers a winning and consistently entertaining motion picture, nicely balancing exposition, action, character-development scenes, and humor. full review

Perhaps most impressively of all, Drive is one of those rare movies that prove that style can actually be substance. full review

This movie employs some cliches and lacks thematic depth, but that doesn’t stop it from being an engaging, irresistibly charming, and highly entertaining trifle. full review

Gone opens with a sequence that has a vague sense of dread about it, and soon thereafter the movie kicks into gear as the filmmakers’ efforts to build suspense start to pay off really well. full review

Perhaps the film’s biggest problem is that there are no characters for the viewer to really care about. full review

While the script gives the human characters things to do—those things, by the way, don’t feel like an afterthought—the humans play second fiddle to the intriguing stuff that involves the apes and their eventual uprising. full review

A fairly entertaining but only sporadically engaging superhero movie that relies too heavily on formulaic concepts and never leaves the comfort zone of its genre. full review

A solid, suspenseful thriller with elements of science fiction plus a thought-provoking philosophical meditation on the nature of reality. full review

Bridesmaids has something that many other movies of its ilk lack: a heart and soul. Ultimately, that’s why this picture is so easy to embrace. full review

A passable diversion that doesn’t wear out its welcome. full review