Valhalla Rising (2010)

Action/Adventure Rated NR

Pure Danish craziness. Director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson) offers a Viking picture that’s like a Terrence Malick film on steroids. It’s brutal and terrifying, yet every frame drips with beauty. (The clouds are so imposing in these ancient skies, they almost count as characters.) In 1,000 A.D., a mute warrior with one eye (Mads Mikkelsen)

Super 8 (2011)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“To watch Super 8 is to witness the birth of our current geek culture.

Skyline (2010)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“I suppose it’s fitting that a movie about aliens extracting human brains would eventually lose its head.

Tron (1982)

Action/Adventure Rated PG

The first video game movie? Though it’s not based on an actual game, Tron is a remarkable transference of the gaming experience onto the big screen – and certainly a better one than most of the iterations we’ve seen since. Jeff Bridges plays a hacker who breaks into a rogue computer system. At first he

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint look — and act — significantly older here than in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. They’re adults, with all the hang-ups, responsibilities and foibles that implies. Deathly Hallows — Part I puts them through a variety of paces — loyalty, jealousy and mistrust swirl among them —

True Grit (1969)

Action/Adventure Rated NR

One of Hollywood’s true curiosities. At times a charming, kiddie Western, this John Wayne vehicle also has a real nasty streak. It’s perhaps best personified by an early hanging scene, during which families gather to picnic and watch. When an adult tries to cover the eyes of a young girl, she says, “No. I’m here.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The (2010)

Action/Adventure Rated PG

…panders to the Christian market while simultaneously tiptoeing around it.

Red (2010)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“There is a breath of fresh air amidst the deadening gunplay…

Machete (2010)

Action/Adventure Rated R

Danny Trejo has been in a lot of movies, but you don’t always get a good look at his face. He usually pops up only briefly in tough-guy bit parts. But in Machete he’s the star, and man does this guy have one gnarled, weather-beaten mug. It’s as if he had a staring contest with

Green Hornet, The (2011)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“I’m beginning to suspect that writer-producer-actor Seth Rogen is up to foul play.