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Angelina Jolie kicks butt in Wanted, a superb action film.

Wanted is the best pure-action movie I've seen in some time. This is an old-school film that uses 21st century filming techniques - lots of bullets and shooting and blood and kicking filled plus some slow-motion and amazing stunts. Do you want a deep plot? Three-dimensional characters? Drama and romance and Shakespearian... (Read on.)

Wall-E is the protagonist of the best animated film of the year.

Wall-E is definitely this year's top animation motion picture, and I really doubt any other film of this sort will be able to top it, at least not during the next couple of months. (Are there any rivals, even? Does a movie like Space Chimps even count?) As enjoyable and funny and exciting as Kung Fu Panda was, I'm afraid Wall-E is... (Read on.)

The late Heath Ledger in the first superhero masterpiece.

The Dark Knight is, hands down, the best motion picture I've seen all year. What's more, is the best superhero movie ever made in the history of superhero movies. But you know what? That's not enough. Since The Dark Knight breaks so many genre barriers and succeeds at being so many different kinds of films, that saying it's the "best superhero movie ever" sounds a little too... vacuous. The Dark Knight is... (Read on.)

Will Smith plays alcoholic superhero Hancock.

Hancock is a very peculiar film. It has been marketed as an action/comedy, when it’s actually an actioner full of special effects and a convoluted plot, with some comedy thrown in for some measure. Is it a good movie? It is, yes, but not as good as it could have been. Hancock works because Will Smith is one of the most likeable actors around, and because, despite working with a weird screenplay, Peter Berg’s... (Read on.)

Kung Fu Panda

Po the Panda in the best Dreamworks Animation film yet.

Kung Fu Panda is one of the most entertaining CGI-animated motion pictures I have ever seen. Although the storyline it presents is predictable and some of the characters are a little paper-thin for my taste, the film as a whole is marvelously fun. I mean, Kung Fu Panda has everything: beautifully choreographed martial arts action... (Read on.)

The Happening

"The Crappening"... enough said.

The Happening is one weird movie. Really. It tries to be a thriller, but it doesn’t excite. It tries to be a horror movie, but it doesn’t’ scare. It tries to be a drama, but it doesn’t touch the viewers’ sensitive side. It tries to be a “message film”, but the so-called message is slammed into the viewer’s eyes so unsubtly, that one ends up not caring about it. Actually, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest turd makes the... (Read on.)

Get Smart

"Get Smart" is one of the best TV show adaptations ever filmed.

Even though I was never a big fan of Mel Brooks' original Get Smart TV show, I nevertheless watched it with certain frequency. I didn't laugh during all the episodes, but when a particular airing was funny, it was really funny. It was because of this that I had high expectations for this year's remake: I wanted it to... (Read on.)