In its quest for sincerity, AMERICAN HUSTLE and most of its characters too often feel like caricatures, their energy pilfered from superior movies you’ve seen before.

The Hangover Part III perhaps stays most true to its namesake considering just how forgettable it is.

Silver Linings Playbook is smart, finely crafted and emotionally consuming. Codependency has seldom been this sweet.

A strong performance by Jeremy Irons almost rescues the lousy writing, but this supposedly literary movie can’t overcome the uninspiring words at its heart.