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  • Transformers: Dark Of The Moon -

    C Has Michael Bay been listening to his critics? All signs point to "yes."

  • Aurora -

    B+ Cristi Puiu's follow-up to The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu tracks the slow lead-up to murder.

  • Cars 2 -

    C- Pixar hitches its wagon to Larry The Cable Guy, and ends its long winning streak in the process. 

  • Bad Teacher  -

    B Cameron Diaz delights in playing an irredeemable junior-high schoolteacher in this raunchy comedy.

  • Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop  -

    C A documentary finds backstage drama on Conan’s “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television” tour.

  • Passione -

    C+ Director John Turturro’s love letter to Neapolitan music provides an abundance of songs and a paucity of context.

  • A Better Life -

    B The director of Twilight: New Moon makes his Bicycle Thieves. (It’s better than it sounds.) 

  • Leap Year -

    A- Not to be confused with the Amy Adams rom-com, this Mexican drama explores a lonely writer’s disturbing proclivities. 

  • The Names Of Love -

    B From France, a romantic comedy done right.

  • A Love Affair Of Sorts -

    D+ The Flip camera is dead. Hopefully, that means movies made on the Flip camera are dead, too.

  • The Best And The Brightest -

    C What begins as a promising send-up of elitist Manhattan elementary schools goes drastically off course.

  • General Orders No. 9 -

    B An experimental documentary explores the altered landscape of the American South. 

  • Green Lantern -

    D+ Superhero movies are popular right now. Here’s another one.

  • Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times -

    B As the media landscape changes drastically, the world’s most esteemed newspaper tries to change with it. 

  • Mr. Popper’s Penguins -

    D+ Jim Carrey improvises with half-real/half-animated penguins in a comedy strictly for those who might find that concept enticing

  • The Art Of Getting By -

    C- An insufferable protagonist dooms this modern-day Ferris Bueller.

  • Battle For Brooklyn  -

    B+ Corporate and grassroots forces collide over the Atlantic Yards project.

  • Buck -

    B The man who inspired The Horse Whisperer helps problem horses cope with people problems.

  • Kidnapped -

    B Only an absence of novelty holds back this crackling home invasion thriller from Spain.

  • Super 8 -

    B J.J. Abrams does his best Spielberg impression in this sci-fi thriller about… something.

  • The Trip -

    B Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon exchange impressions and insults in this rollicking drive through northern England.

  • Road To Nowhere  -

    B+ The director of Two-Lane Blacktop has lost none of his iconoclasm four decades later.

  • Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer -

    C Now girls have their own Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. Hooray?

  • Just Like Us  -

    C- Director/comic Ahmed Ahmed leads a band of comedians on a tour through the Middle East.

  • Viva Riva! -

    B A Congolese Scarface hits all the right exploitation-movie buttons.

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