Kick-Ass expertly blends side-splitting humor with bone-shattering action and the result is something endlessly entertaining. It will do for superheroes what Zombieland did for the undead.
With a very creepy premise about a serial killer using the Internet to kill his victims, Untraceable mostly delivers the chills, despite its conventionalities.
X-Men: The Last Stand falls somewhere between the plodding exposition of the first X-Men and the compelling, character-driven X2. In other words, its action-packed but lacks that certain mutant angst.
Perhaps if Friday Night Lights was the first high school football story to come to the big screen, it would be one of the best. Even though the film does sport some superb performances and tackles gritty realism with gusto, it isn't the first to do that--far from it.