Overview: Two veteran detectives (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino) hunt a vigilante whose crimes resemble those of a killer they put behind bars long ago.

Overview: During one fateful night, a group of impossibly attractive twentysomethings must dodge a series of man-made and natural disasters.

Overview: An ex-cop (Kiefer Sutherland) must protect his family from an evil force that is using ordinary mirrors to cross over into their home.

Overview: Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), pampered action superstar, sets out for Southeast Asia to take part in the biggest, most-expensive war movie produced. But soon after filming begins, he and his co-stars, Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey), comic Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) and the rest of the crew, must become real soldiers when fighting breaks out in that part of the jungle.

Overview: Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O’Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex (Luke Ford), wife Evelyn (Maria Bello) and her brother, Jonathan (John Hannah). And this time, the O’Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service.

Overview: Special Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Special Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) return to solve another spooky FBI case.

Overview: Gotham City is under siege once again and it's time for Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) to put on his bat-costume and do battle with two evil enemies: the nefarious Joker (Heath Ledger) and district-attorney-turned-villain Two Face (Aaron Eckhart).

Overview: A once-popular superhero (Will Smith) has now fallen from grace and is reviled by his formerly adoring public. Hoping to become the idol of millions again, he hires a public relations expert (Jason Bateman), which is a good move until he starts dating the expert's hot wife (Charlize Theron).

Review: When Hancock stops a car full of gun-toting gangbangers, he destroys assorted vehicles and a freeway sign and defaces a local monument in the process. When he tosses a beached whale back into the ocean, he capsizes a boat. Hancock is clearly the guy the term "collateral damage" was invented for.

Worse than that, Hancock has a blistering tongue, something the film's trailers have taken care to avoid revealing. That a film with dauntingly profane diatribes that would make a stevedore blush got a PG-13 rating, while the much sweeter Election was saddled with an R a few years back, will be catnip to those who think the MPAA ratings board (which reportedly twice gave Hancock an R before further cuts changed its mind) invariably gives away the store to major studio releases.

Things might have gone on like this forever for Hancock - who knows how long a superhero's liver can hold out - if he hadn't one day saved the life of a man named Ray Embrey (an agreeable Jason Bateman), whose car was trapped on railroad tracks with a train bearing down. Embrey turns out to be a good-natured public relations man who believes in making the world a better place and specializes in image consulting. Though his wife Mary (an initially underutilized Charlize Theron) takes a visceral dislike to Hancock, Embrey decides nothing will do but that he will help this reluctant superhero to clean up his act.

Overview: Still stuck with the ability to turn into a raging behemoth, Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately searches for a cure that will rid him of his gamma-irradiated alter ego once and for all. However, he's barely given a chance to stop running from the obsessed General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), who will use the entire might of the U.S. military to find Banner and kill the Hulk. Meanwhile, Banner also must deal with his tortured relationship with Betty Ross (Liv Tyler), as well as contend with a new opponent, another gamma-created monstrosity called the Abomination (Tim Roth).

Review: If you’ve ever gotten angry, I mean really angry, you feel a kinship with The Incredible Hulk. First he gets mad, then he gets even, flattening everything in sight. Even being green seems a small price to pay for power like that.

The people at Marvel Entertainment also have a soft spot for this problem child of superheroes. They've brought the monster from the id back to the big screen, attempting to reanimate the franchise after 2003's lackluster The Hulk, directed by Ang Lee. The result is solid and efficient, if unadventurous, illustrating both the lure and the limitations of comic book extravaganzas.

Going as far as possible from the thoughtful Lee, the producers hired French action director Louis Leterrier, responsible for The Transporter and the Jet Li-starring Unleashed. And, with Ed Norton as scientist and Hulk alter ego Bruce Banner and Tim Roth as his rival Emil Blonsky, at least a hint of strong acting and dramatic interest was ensured.

The hook of the Hulk franchise is that far from reveling in the destructive power he literally has at his fingertips -- the character's origins are briskly recapped in the opening credits -- Banner would rather do without it.

So we find Banner hiding out in one of Rio de Janeiro's teeming favelas, learning Portuguese with the help of "Sesame Street" and celebrating 158 days without an incident of murderous rage.

Unfortunately, Banner's perennial nemesis, the wooden Gen. Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross (William Hurt), believes "that man's whole body is the property of the U.S. Army." He tracks Banner down and recruits Blonsky from Britain's Royal Marines to spearhead a standard snatch-and-grab operation.

As anyone could have predicted, nothing is standard when the Hulk is concerned. But as it turns out, the Rio setup followed by the requisite chase through the favelas' narrow lanes make the film's crisp, purposeful opening half-hour the most satisfying part of the film.

The chase also offers Blonsky a glimpse of the Hulk's power, and once he witnesses it he must procure a piece of that action for himself. The scheming general, of course, is all too happy to oblige, which sets up a final reel confrontation between the Hulk and something called the Abomination.

Norton and Roth are strong actors, and Liv Tyler is properly empathetic as Banner's longtime girlfriend, Betty Ross, whom the scientist reunites with because (a) he really loves her and (b) he is in desperate need of some stretchy pants, having shred several earlier pair in his violent transformations.

Overview: Carrie Bradshaw, Samantha Jones, Charlotte York Goldenblatt and Miranda Hobbes (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon) all return for another Manhattan adventure of romance and laughs.

Review: It’s impossible to talk about the new Sex and the City movie without first mentioning "Sex and the City," the HBO series; or the rabid fan devotion it enjoyed; or the equally fervent antipathy (female and male) it inspired on socio-political grounds (sort of like the late-'90s equivalent of not letting your daughter play with Barbies); or the recently much-affirmed straight-male aversion to the series, predicated on cooties. In fact, the film arrives shrouded in such a fog of expectation, preconception, anticipation and (now with more post-Hillary bite!) gender bias that it's hard to see -- or write about -- the movie for the trees.

Which is too bad, because Michael Patrick King, who executive produced the show (with series creator Darren Star) and wrote and directed the movie, has done some brave, surprising things with it, mining territory that's been all but abandoned by Hollywood. It's hard, in fact, to think of any other recent examples of movies that explore the complicated emotional lives of characters comically without stooping to adolescent silliness or that are willing to go to such dark places while remaining a comedy in the Shakespearean sense -- all's well that ends well.

Sex and the City can't rightly be called a romantic comedy in the dismal, contemporary sense, though it is at times romantic and is consistently very funny. It's also emotionally realistic, even brutal. Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Samantha (Kim Cattrall), now in their 40s and 50s, continue to navigate the choppy waters of urban life, negotiating relationships, work, fertility and friendship, only now the stakes are higher, the risks are bigger and decisions feel more permanent.

For a film that delights in indulging in frivolity at every possible turn, it examines subjects that most movies don't dare graze for their terrifying seriousness. And when it does, the movie handles them with surprising grace, wit and maturity. In other words, it's a movie for grown-ups of all ages. The press and industry screening I attended was uncharacteristically packed with women in their 20s, and my guess is that their interest had zero to do with the inclusion of Jennifer Hudson as Carrie's personal assistant -- though her character, Louise, is likable and allows the writer to expand the scope of the film from a story about four friends living in New York into a tale about the contemporary lives of urban women from early adulthood to maturity.

Overview: Harrison Ford returns as the iconic adventurer who picks up a new sidekick (Shia La Beouf) and an old flame (Karen Allen) for this ride.

Review: Though the film stars a relaxed and capable Harrison Ford as everyone's favorite intrepid archaeologist and boasts supporting players ranging from Cate Blanchett as a superb villainess to Shia LaBeouf as the inevitable youngster, the real heroes of this film are director Steven Spielberg and the veritable army of superb technicians who turn the film's numerous stunts and special effects into trains that insist on running on time.

Indeed, if Ford is a known Indy quantity, newcomer Blanchett is a great treat as Colonel Professor Irina Spalko, three-time winner of the Order of Lenin and "Stalin's fair-haired girl" despite a jet-black hairdo a la Louise Brooks.

The Colonel Professor and a crack team of Russians manage to force their way into a secret U.S. Army base in Nevada as the film begins. They bring the kidnapped Jones with them and force him at gunpoint to help them find some mummified remains from a plane crash that are stored in a giant government warehouse, the same one, incidentally, that was featured in the ending of Raiders.

Overview: Kate (Tina Fey) is a single woman with a successful career who is longing to have a baby. However, instead of putting her climb up the corporate ladder on hold to get pregnant, she hires a surrogate mom (Amy Poehler) to have the kid for her.