This is an extremely violent movie, with one long gory scene that's particularly hard to stomach. The great majority of Triad Election is about political maneuvering, but when the conversations end, the blood flows mightily.

The biggest sin of 28 Weeks Later is that it's not in the same league as the near-perfect movie that came before it.

While the sequel to "Night Watch" is an imperfect film, it's always interesting.

The entertaining new film from Sony Pictures Animation is a nice surprise, and the rare mainstream American kid film.

Never very frightening, but it's clever and fun, with a memorable amount of humor and gore.

Even more ridiculous than it sounds.

Just funny enough.

Rocket Science has the makings of either a tragedy or a crowd-pleasing underdog story, but writer-director Jeffrey Blitz instead takes the movie on a different, and ultimately more rewarding, direction.

As impressive as it is geeky. Most of the principal characters look like they haven't seen daylight since "Pac-Man Fever" was on the charts.

While the songs are recycled, Across the Universe stands out just by existing.

The multiple-story-line family drama is too cliche-ridden to be considered a great movie. But it's still a very good one, filled with excellent performances, entertaining writing and a final few scenes that are quite moving - even if you can see most of them coming at the end of the first act.

A well-paced and entertaining horror debut.

Instructive as a portrait of activism.

While it's riveting throughout, The Mist is a bit bloated.

Funny, very clever and still packs some cover-your-face bloody thrills that top any "Saw" or "Hostel" movie.

Helm gets huge bonus points for noticing everything that's annoying about modern children's films and including none of those things in his movie.

A welcome throwback to family-friendly PG moviemaking.

Produced by "Lost" and "Alias" mastermind J.J. Abrams, Cloverfield has been one of the more interesting experiments in large-scale guerrilla filmmaking.

A funny comedy, and sometimes an even better drama.

It's one of the least scary films that he's made - but still entertaining, and very, very gory.

Has a solid story, which keeps things interesting during the quiet moments when nobody is getting kicked in the head.

It's an achingly beautiful movie and a triumph of location scouting, with more cosmopolitan spectacle than the past three Indiana Jones and James Bond movies combined.

Presents an almost fawning portrait of the doctor-turned-surfer.

The talented fantasy filmmaker and heir to the "Lord of the Rings" throne gets the tone right throughout Hellboy 2, and the hip retro charm alone is enough to merit recommendation.

It's a funny, mostly harmless and entertaining film with a bad case of dry mouth.

Deserves plenty of credit for exploring racial issues story in more realistic terms.

Most of the time, the movie is appropriately gritty and plenty engaging.

Twilight has a few gory plot turns - mostly offscreen - and one near-sex scene that may offend a few Amish people, but the rest is maybe 33 percent less wholesome than "High School Musical." It's almost certainly less risque than what you were watching when you were 14. (Cue the soundtrack to "Risky Business.")