Chloe Grace Moretz

[Moretz:] You really get into character when you put on the jacket and the pants and the boots and the amazing wig...I kind of walked like a boy. It was really funny. Every time I was in that costume, I was always, like, really tough.

Begin by blaming leads that lack charisma outside of their model bodies, move on to the cheap technique of pounding soundtrack blasts...arrive at the comically clichéd script.

Is it too much to hope that the sequel will be "Nanny McPhee vs. Big Momma"? Just asking...

The playful Generation Y story (500) Days of Summer goes against the grain by wisely substituting delusion for deception. Boy meets girl. Boy thinks he understands girl. Boy oh boy.

On the page and on the screen, Kick-Ass riffs on the wish-fulfillment afforded by tales of derring-do and the ill-advisedness of taking on the task in real life.

Stylish...sitcomedic...plays it pretty safe.

By asking the audience to take far too much on faith, Dark Shadows can only be an interesting failure.

Give this to Kick-Ass 2: it's never boring...Even so, Kick-Ass has lost most of its transgressive charge along with its element of surprise and its heroes' disturbingly unwavering conviction.

Shamelessly engineered and sappy, but swoony romantics (c'mon, you know you are one!) may not much mind.

The star makes the film something like a guilty pleasure, but he and touches like the film-opening Mark Twain quotation form little more than a gilded cover wrapped around pure pulp.

While the borderline silly material could easily have sunk like a lead balloon, Shelton and her actors sprinkle enough pixie dust to make Laggies fly.

Assayas implies that what transpires between the characters of Clouds of Sils Maria, between artists and art, and between art and audiences contains its own beautiful mystery that's nourishing, maddening, and essential.