The warp drives on the USS Enterprise are, as usual, on the verge of meltdown in “Star Trek Into Darkness.” Luckily, the entertainment propulsion system for the sci-fi saga is roaring full throttle.

Poor Ariel. He’s talking to hotties in a late-night dance club in Valparaíso, Chile, when an earthquake hits, crushing a hostess before he even can get her number.

The third “Iron Man” movie, the finale to this trilogy of Marvel marvels, is the jokiest and cutest of them all. Iron Man / Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) gets a kiddie sidekick, for Pete’s sake.

Masked villains in red ninja suits chase Snake Eyes and Jinx as they attempt to spirit a ninja villain out of a mountaintop lair.

A big-budget, effects-laden, 3-D retelling of the Jack and the Beanstalk legend may seem like the unlikeliest pairing yet of director Bryan Singer and writer Christopher McQuarrie, but “Jack the Giant Slayer” ends up being smart, thrilling and a whole ...

Choppy and bordering on incoherent, "Bullet to the Head" is Sylvester Stallone's answer to Arnold Schwarzenegger's "The Last Stand," an action exercise in "Here's how we used to do it."

F-words and flying limbs get top billing in the genre-clashing fairy tale action movie "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters."

British director Andrea Arnold cuts beneath the romantic accretion of decades of movie and TV adaptations to penetrate the dark, heathen heart of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel.

Based on the book by Lee Child, "Jack Reacher" is the story of a stern former military man who is hired to investigate what at first looks like an open-and-shut case.

"This Is 40" is a semi-successful and sentimental return to form for the creator of "Knocked Up" and TV's influential "Freaks and Geeks."

For those who simply cannot get enough of Middle Earth, Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" promises to be the ultimate Travel New Zealand miniseries.

"Life of Pi" is one of those lyrical, internalized novels that should have no business working on the screen. Quite possibly, it wouldn't have worked if anyone but Ang Lee had adapted it.

Daniel Day-Lewis puts on a tremendous performance as the fabled 16th president during the last four months of his life.

"2 Days in New York" is a sequel of sorts to the superior and modestly popular "2 Days in Paris" (2007), also written and directed by its star.

Capsule descriptions and starred mini-reviews by John Beifuss.