Sundance Mopey Alienation Flick No. 4,228 is For Ellen, an empty angst-athon that proves 90 minutes of close-ups of Paul Dano looking wounded can be even less interesting than it sounds.

Familiar and predictable enough, especially if you have seen Hollywood serial-killer thrillers like "Se7en."

Movies about addicts are a dime a dozen, but Cocaine Angel does its own thing, mixing humor with bleakness and resisting the too-common urge to romanticize addiction.

Has its share of clichés and contrivances. Fortunately, compensation is provided by strong performances by veteran actor Vincent Lindon as the coach and newcomer Firat Ayverdi as the refugee.

Fighting arrives fully charged by the charisma of its star, Channing Tatum, who has landed the lead in the upcoming "G.I. Joe."

Adult World proceeds by fits and starts, but fans of Cusack won’t want to miss his performance as the petulant poet, whose resistance is inevitably worn down by his persistent fan.

Most of DC Comics’ dreadful movies deserve to be violently squished, but not Blue Beetle, a refreshingly spry new film featuring the lesser-loved, bug-shaped superhero who’s been crawling around in some form since 1939.

This movie is basically “Spinal Tap” minus the jokes. Two of the band members have the word “Metallica” emblazoned on their clothing. Metallica — it’s the band that has to remind fans whom they’re watching!

It's a story that says a lot about the stupidity of war.

The movie that deserved to win the Oscar for foreign-language film, and one of the best movies ever made about life behind the Iron Curtain.

Mostly an unfunny, rather dull affair.

Grows on you like kudzu.

Contains impeccable performances, especially by the frightening Ifans.

The movie is overwhelmingly positive. It would have helped if Araki's critics had more of a say.

Fast, furious and often funny. But no blood is truly shed (except literally in a playground fight during the opening credits).

This exhilarating brain-twister is a nonstop visual, aural and intellectual delight, steeped in movie conventions and yet fizzing with freshness. It’s what happens when film noir goes out to a rave.

Lust, Caution could have done with a lot more lust and a lot less caution.

It's ultimately a shallow effort.

Deafeningly loud and proudly silly epic.

Yearning for an exciting African adventure? Oka! isn't it.

The impressive first feature by Sergio Machado, a one-time assistant to Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries"), is a trip through a grungy world of crime, sex and cockfights.

The performances by the attractive ensemble cast are uniformly solid.

Wirkola keeps the narrative taut, wasting not a frame; and he throws in funny moments.

McAleer is an expert practitioner of cinematic jujitsu.

A stunning display of a filmmaker adventuring on the far side of what's possible.

That’s the worst thing about these new Scream films — they couldn’t spook a kitten. They’re much more concerned with so-so jokes and overly geeky observations about the horror genre. Yes, Scream always commented on other scary movies, but never so obnoxiously and repetitively as now.

One of the best films released so far this year, At Any Price signals the arrival of Iranian-American Ramin Bahrani in the ranks of major US directors.

Chillingly realistic but deeply repellent, The War Within is a film that should not have been made.