Godfather / Godfather: Part II

Buy-it - The first is often considered the best film of all time and is my 2nd favorite film ever made. The second is typically referred to as one of the best sequels in film history. Together, they tell the story of a mafia family and their life in organized crime. And they are simultaneously the ultimate family film and best mob movie ever.

Soul Surfer

Wait-for-it - Here is the description: "A young, teenage surfer girl summons the courage to go back into the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack." That's literally all you need to know. Decide for yourself if you want to sit through 105 minutes of that.

Rio

Rent-it - Rio is an animated tale about a couple Macaws in Minnesota who want to join the flock in Rio de Janeiro, but are, of course, sidetracked along the way - voiced by Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, and Tracy Morgan.

Your Highness

Skip-it - Unless you are in this to catch pre-pregnant Natalie Portman in a thong one last time before she becomes the "World's #1 MILF" - you will be highly disappointed in this big budget "comedy" that rarely delivers laughs, even with "Kenny Powers" comic powers onboard.

Paul

Rent-it - This sci-fi comedy about an alien who needs a ride across the country is not nearly as clever as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, but Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's latest creation does serve up some intergalactic entertainment and is at times hysterical - "at times."

The Ward

Skip-it - John Carpenter's return to horror will have you wondering if he himself was institutionalized these past 9 years. Skip this psych-ward ghost thriller.

Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil

Skip-it - It might entertain children with the 3-D swoops and dives, but overall it's missing the clever wordplay of the wildly underrated first film.

The Conspirator

Wait-for-it - This courtroom drama plays more like a history lesson about a woman charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Priest

Skip-it - Sure, it finally makes vampires scary again (no sparkling teenage boys here), but it is also as cliched a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film could possibly be. Skip the warrior priest's quest to save his abducted niece.

Something Borrowed

Skip-it - Don't let your girlfriend drag you to this film about the typically-sad 30-something single woman, engaged braggart friend played by Kate Hudson, and handsome fiancé lawyer's love triangle set in NYC.

Jane Eyre

Rent-it - Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) may earn herself an Oscar in her portrayal of Jane Eyre, a governess for a wealthy man who has made her life, until now, completely drab and dreary.

13 Assassins

Buy-it - Cult director Takeshi Miike (Audition) creates an epicly bloody samurai action film set in feudal Japan. The emotional subtitled story combined with the elegant violence makes it an impossibly unattainable, perfectly over-the-top, period masterpiece.

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D

Skip-it - This spy family film's "clever" 4-D concept with scratch-and-sniff cards might be more intriguing if the movie didn't smell like poop and puke - but maybe director Robert Rodriguez just wanted the fourth dimension to stink as bad as the other three?

The Change-Up

Skip-it - Honestly, the only reason to see this comedy where Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman switch bodies (and typecasts) is to see Olivia Wilde's nude scene with CGI nipples.

The Smurfs

Skip-it - The Smurfs visiting New York is nothing more than a handful of recognizable voices buried beneath a heaping pile of boring blue baby junk.

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie

See-it if you are a Gleek - Otherwise, you will remain as confused as ever as to why this dramedy is such a pup-culture phenomenon.

One Day

Skip-it - It's refreshing to see some apt plot twists in a romdramcom, but the book is much more affective than this script - which even Anne Hathaway can't influence.

Conan the Barbarian

Skip-it - This Conan is just as bloody and violent as the original, but it is also just a cheesy, and without Arnold Schwarzenegger it's more like limburger.

30 Minutes or Less

Wait-for-it - Don't fall for the advertisements on TV stating every scene is hilarious, unless you care for crude lowbrow comedy, because this film about a small town pizza delivery guy's plan to rob a bank is rarely smart and only occasionally funny.

The Whistleblower

Wait-for-it - Rent the much better docudrama also starring a smoldering Rachel Weisz The Constant Gardener and wait for this film about a Nebraskan police officer in post-war Bosnia to hit HBO or Netflix Instant.

Friends with Benefits

Rent-it - Now we know why Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz broke up, and why Bad Teacher stunk, because JT and co-star Mila Kunis's chemistry carries this formulaic yet hip romcom just enough the nearly recommend seeing it in theaters - if you're into that sort of thing.

Crazy, Stupid, Love

Rent-it - This typical romcom hodgepodge of a guy losing his perfect life but then bumping into her high school sweetheart is anything but typical and truly a hodgepodge of talented actors.

Final Destination 5

See-it - If you loved the first two films in this gory franchise, you will be pleasantly surprised at this return to form. The creatively complex deaths in 3-D are reason enough to see-it in theaters, if you wait-for-it at home the lacking story between deaths might leave you wishing you were one of the ill-fated characters from the first act.

The Help

See-it - This racially hyper film about some extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s is carried by its talented cast who make it a touching and satisfactory drama.

Cowboys and Aliens

Rent-it - Director Jon Favreau actually fails us here, despite Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford's best efforts to carry this sci-fi western where nothing exciting ever really happens - despite a name like Cowboys & Aliens. However, if you like Olivia Wilde, and old-fashioned westerns (not to be confused with the new hip Oscar-worthy westerns), you might mildly (and Wildely) enjoy this.

The Last Circus

See-it if you can - New This Week - If you get a chance to see this Spanish art house dramcom about a Rambo-esque circus clown and his sad abused son you have to see-it if you can.

The Guard

See-it if you can - Brendan Gleeson (the recognizable beefy Irish actor from countless great films) stars in this hilarious dark comedy about sex, drugs and blackmail.

Attack the Block

See-it if you can - If you liked Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead you will love this British sci-fi spoof about a group of inner-city kids who go to war with aliens.

Fright Night

See-it - Colin Farrell stars in this stylishly scary remake of the 1985 cult classic about a high school senior and his "bloody" strange new neighbor.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

See-it - Andy Serkis deserves an Oscar for his leading role as Caesar, the motion-captured CGI ape, in this surprisingly emotional film from the same special effects team that created Avatar and Lord of the Rings.