The Love Punch is a romantic comedy as painfully unfunny as a sock in the jaw.

July is solid throwback storytelling, a crime yarn that may not blow you away but can cut to the bone.

Think of it as a thrill ride with gravitas.

You have to work hard to make an African vacation seem unpleasant. And Adam Sandler nearly pulls it off in Blended.

Godzilla 2014 is a more somber and frightening reboot than the cartoonish 1998 movie.

Palo Alto marks one of those rare films that is so accurate in its portrayal of characters that the movie suffers for it.

Alas, Wolf tries too hard to shock to be effective.

Glimmers of a fascinating and lively period film surface and fade in the first half-hour of The Immigrant. What predominates is a dully morose, overheated and implausible story.

When it focuses on the clash of cultures, laughs naturally flow. When it follows the familiar sports movie playbook too slavishly, it grows tedious.

Neighbors is the "Animal House" for an era in which food fights seem quaint.

A slow-cooked film that's one of the most heartwarming of the young year.

Mothers deserve a much better break than the hectic, shrill and dismally unpleasant Moms' Night Out.

While the film is not nearly as evocative as Egoyan's 1997 masterpiece "The Sweet Hereafter" (also about children who died tragically), it is still an intrinsically fascinating story.

And that's Fed Up's ultimate, if not fatal, weakness: The movie seems to acquit consumers of any culpability in our health crisis.

The layered film's blend of Austen-style romance, courtroom drama and historical look at the British slave trade works surprisingly well, though there are moments — especially involving the conniving suitors — that teeter on melodrama.

Aerial sequences are often thrilling. However, interpersonal relations are front and center in this installment.

Narrated by Johnny Depp, a portrait emerges of an anarchic, humble spirit who now fears becoming "a visual polluter."

Blue Ruin is the rare film that is nearly consistently tense, the suspense only temporarily subsiding about an hour into the story. It's a welcome respite.

The story soon devolves into a far-fetched, futuristic snooze-fest that often defies its own logic. Characters' motivations are rarely clear, and allegiances shift with no explanation.

The breezy and sometime absurd Fading Gigolo is reminiscent of vintage Italian films and early Woody Allen movies.

It has lighthearted moments, but is also suspenseful at the right times.

A wide-eyed 4-year-old makes a fairly convincing case for the existence of an afterlife in Heaven is for Real. But it's Greg Kinnear — with his characteristic affability — that just about seals the deal.

Rio 2 teems with colorful animated splendor and elaborate musical numbers, but its rambling, hectic, if good-hearted, story is for the birds.

Unsettling and well-acted story.

For those who puzzled over the "Twilight" hoopla here are Adam and Eve, the artiest, most sophisticated pair of vampires to hit screens in a long time.

For a well-acted movie about the horrors of war and the lure of revenge, it's surprisingly dull and starchy.

Draft's reverence for the gridiron, its heroes and the cities that worship them (particularly Cleveland) will make the movie a first-round pick of diehards.

Jude Law put on 30 pounds to play this slimeball. But the weightier question is, why would he bother to take this worn-out role, at any size?