Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Horror Rated R

A sequel to the 2002 video-game adaptation that was most notable for introducing the concept of the zombie dog, this seems to be based on an entire video-game arcade. It’s so random and haphazard, watching it feels like jumping from one arcade game to the next without ever finishing on any of them. Milla Jovovich

Return To Me (2000)

Romantic Comedy Rated PG

The movie equivalent of holding hands, this romantic comedy is innocent, simple and sweet – all without making you gag. David Duchovny and Minnie Driver hit it off wonderfully as the lovebirds, and writer-director Bonnie Hunt surrounds them with a spirited supporting cast. All together, they’ve pulled off a movie miracle of sorts: a feel-good

Gothika (2003)

Horror Rated R

If you’re going to give Gothika a chance, you’ll have to get over a lot more than Halle Berry in the role of a criminal psychologist who begins to question her own sanity. There’s a lot of silliness here, but also some genuine scares, thanks mostly to the way the movie gets you inside a

Into the Blue (2005)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

Paul Walker auditions for the part of Aquaman as Jared, a beach bum in the Bahamas with dreams of finding sunken treasure. In the course of the overly plotted story that ensues – involving drug dealers, corrupt cops and Jessica Alba as his bikini-baring girlfriend – Jared finds himself forced to cling from the side

Grudge 2, The (2006)

Horror Rated PG-13

The Grudge 2 commits the cardinal sin of horror films: it’s stupefyingly boring. The few jolts won’t scare those in the audience, just wake them up. Director Takashi Shimizu – returning from 2004’s The Grudge, which was itself a remake of his own Japanese original – trots out the same two ghosts from the other

Big Trouble (2002)

Comedy Rated PG-13

If you don’t find at least one amusing thing in Big Trouble, then you’re either having a really bad day or you should admit to being a professional crab. This is a movie packed with about 15 story lines, 14 main characters (played by the likes of Tim Allen, Rene Russo and Dennis Farina) and

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Documentary Rated PG

Can you dislike Al Gore’s green documentary and still like trees? The movie itself doesn’t seem to think so. Gore, on a world tour giving an exhaustively detailed multimedia presentation on global warming, means to clear the air, so to speak, but Truth director Davis Guggenheim is so intent on lionizing Gore for his efforts

The Prestige (2006)

Drama Rated PG-13

“…that rare magic trick that still holds its power even after you’ve learned all of its secrets.”

Little Children (2006)

Drama Rated R

Little Children never reconciles its two main plot strands, no matter how much you’re rooting for it to do just that. The movie takes place in leafy, tot-strewn suburbia, where an affair between a frustrated young mother (Kate Winslet) and an aimless stay-at-home dad (Patrick Wilson) is set against the return of a convicted sex

Swimming Pool (2003)

Thriller Rated R

A glistening, sex-soaked French thriller, Swimming Pool is partly about a novelist’s search for inspiration, but it’s mostly about the sort of inspiration that can come from watching actress Ludivine Sagnier stretched under the sun in a barely there bikini. The main character is an older mystery writer (Charlotte Rampling), but Sagnier – as the