It's always trying to do something unusual. It has a great lead in Pegg. What it doesn't have is an ending or a clear reason what it wants to be.

The real surprise is that it's a lot of fun, with Sandler becoming more personable as the film progresses, and a couple of truly side-splitting scenes.

The formula for Robin Williams' childish stick wares dangerously thin this time out.

Friend Request keeps up the pace and throws in a few neat twists to keep the plot from stagnating.

An overqualified adult cast and some fun moments can’t entirely compensate for a defanged protagonist and too-static plot. This fantasy desperately needed a little more magic.

A turkey in crow’s clothing.

This swords-and-sorcery throwback has little imagination on display, instead doubling down on computer-generated flair to pass the time.

The novelty factor stops and starts at the 3-D specs: this is a horror movie on tracks, not going anyplace new. Still, there’s some inventive grue-splashing as always.

Another violently unsuccessful attempt to bring this comic book character to screen.

A bold but ultimately doomed effort that will irritate all but cultists of the bizarre and the most rabid fans of Mr. Cage.

A director who can't decide whether he's aiming for high comedy or gritty noirishness combine to shoot the whole caboodle squarely in the foot.

Tonally a complete departure from the rest of the series, which is at once laudably brave and disappointingly unfunny.

Fails on both an emotional and comedic level.

Hammy action yarn with an entertaining performance from Michael Caine.

A slight improvement on Expendables 3, Expend4bles still works better as character posters than a movie you have to actually sit through. To paraphrase the tag line, old blood meets new blood equals tired blood.

It isn’t quite hell, but clambering to the end of this dusty remnant of an idea is certainly purgatory.

The Electric State loses some of the quiet profundity of the original text, but as a breezily watchable retrofuturistic jolly, it has just enough juice.

Nine years on from the first movie but somehow the effects have gone backwards and the charm has gone missing.

A totally unneeded sequel which does nothing whatsoever for the legacy of the original tale.

Blue Iguana grates on pretty much every level, a misjudged hodge-podge of ill-defined characters, tired filmmaking licks and an air of general unpleasantness. It also contains one of the worst shootouts in recent memory.

Smug and lazy comedy that barely raises a chuckle.

Old School with added poker chips? Perhaps. But this Ferrell and Poehler-powered comedy blockbuster has big laughs, an enjoyably grisly streak, and a film-stealing turn from Jason Mantzoukas.

Arguably worse than its sadistic absurdity is the depressing, limited scope.

Enjoyable, if slight.

An absolute shambles of a fantasy folly. Overlong, undercooked, and clogged with enough clichés that even its teen target audience will feel disrespected.

Promising source material and a talented cast are squandered in a stale, rigidly formulaic J-horror wannabe. Slender Man equals slim pickings for all but the most undemanding devotees.

A flowerier adaptation of the Scott Spencer romance than Zeffirelli's '80s version, it's tailor-made for the Nicholas Sparks crowd.

Gauged on a count of wit or originality this doesn't even register.