From the somewhat hazy cinematography to the John Barry-ish score to the overtly cold and clinical nature of the narrative, this is a film that (appropriately) wants to take us back to what many consider to the peak of mainstream adult filmmaking.

As pure popcorn entertainment, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows delivers the big-budget goods, even as it almost sacrifices its worth as a film to do so.

Noted quibbles aside, Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol is a splendidly exciting piece of mainstream entertainment. It is a dazzling action picture that genuinely impresses.

This was a weekend where two films gave the strongest evidence yet that there may be some kind of "slump" in domestic box office, while a third stood as a firm, "It's the movie, stupid!" rebuttal.

Despite the film's fine intentions and adult treatment of adult subject matter, In the Land of Blood and Honey doesn't quite work as a compelling piece of drama.

More than any other movie since Peter Jackson's King Kong, Steven Spielberg's War Horse operates as a textbook example of what "going to the movies" is supposed to mean.

Topping the box office was the wide release of Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, which earned $29 million over the Friday-to-Sunday portion, with $61.3 million between the Wedneday-Monday six-day wide opening.

Here are ten films that qualify as "underrated." Some of them are good, if not great films, that were unfairly maligned. Others were mediocrities that nonetheless did not deserve the level of scorn which they received.

Most are what I would consider 'bad movies' that are being hailed elsewhere as greats, while a few are merely mediocre movies that are inexplicably being given a critical pass in most circles.