Source Code

Buy-it - Source Code is an exhilarating, mind-bending, sci-fi thriller where Jake Gyllenhaal enters a stranger's body on a Chicago train for 8 minutes at time in an attempt to find the bomber onboard - think Groundhog Day meets Minority Report - but better!

Captain America: The First Avenger

See-it - Marvel comics has a third great superhero film of the year with this pleasantly nostalgic, good-ole-fashioned, action adventure film.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Buy-it - The second best and darkest Harry Potter film (behind Goblet of Fire) is the perfect ending to the magical story about the young wizard and his lifelong antagonist Voldermort. Don't be surprised if Ralph Fiennes gets an Oscar nom-nod. And film might just make its way into the Academy's top 10 this year as well.

Season of the Witch

Skip-it - I am starting to feel like a broken record, but please, Nic Cage, please, stop making movies! How did you win an Oscar? Seriously? Season of the Witch is boring and ugly, so much so it can't even pass as one of those terrible movies you just have to see so you can laugh at how bad it is.

Beastly

Skip-it - An extremely misguided retelling of the classic "Beauty and the Beast" story starring the young "actress" from High School Musical, Vanessa Hudgens.

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

Skip-it - This clumsy, uninspired, monster-mash horror/comedy based on one of the world's most popular comics (60 million copies worldwide) about a private investigator for the undead can't even be considered a B-movie - and is at best a C-movie.

Sanctum

Skip-it - It is hard to imagine that a James Cameron film about water and adventure could be bad (The Abyss, Titanic and coming soon - Avatar 2 aka Avatar Underwater) but Sanctum, despite being beautifully shot in 3-D, drowns under lifeless performances and sappy dialogue.

Take Me Home Tonight

Skip-it - It's somewhat of a mash-up of Hot Tub Time Machine, House Party, and any teen rom-com starring Freddy Prinze Jr. and is just as bad as any of those FPJ films as well.

The Rite

Skip-it - Though Anthony Hopkins does his best Hannibal Lecter impression, this rite of passage should be your last if you get any redeeming value from this unscary, uninteresting, and underwhelming film that fails to explain a single cause for any effect.

Sucker Punch

Skip-it - This was supposed to be the "next big thing" from filmmaker Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen), and just like those films this epic fantasy adventure is visually arresting, however, Sucker Punch follows an un-appealing story about an un-appealing girl (though not to the eyes) who ecapes her dark reality by creating her own "dream" world."

Just Go with It

Skip-it - I had high hopes for a rom-com with some of my favorite guilty-pleasure actors and actresses (Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, and Nicole Kidman) and two newbies that peeked my interest (Brooklyn Decker and Bailee Madison - that's right Bailee Madison, not Billy Madison) but this film about a guy pretending to be married to get a smoking hot girl - a girl that's even out of Andy Roddick's league - is terrible! I urge you to not "just go with it."

Hobo With a Shotgun

Wait-for-it - This homage to over-the-top gory b-movies is about a man looking for a new start in a new town and it would have been the perfect movie for a hot summer night at the drive-in, but at this point, if you're looking for a funny gross out film just wait for it to show up on demand.

Limitless

Wait-for-it - Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) is his usual charismatic self in this film about a pill that allows you to tap into your full potential - unfortunately, the screenwriter needs a dose of his own medicine.

Inside Job

Rent-it - Matt Damon narrates this documentary about the 2008 financial crisis, which cost $20 trillion and millions of people their jobs and homes - and though we were all a part of this depressing time, this inside look is a must see on the greatest recession since the Great Depression.

Trust

Rent-it - A handful of recognizable faces star in this film directed by David Schwimmer about family ni Chicago, and more-so their 13-year-old daughter who is deceived by an online persona.

Wake Wood

Rent-it - This horror thriller about a child's gruesome death and her grieving parents is one of those rare straight-to-DVD films that is actually worth renting. It's dark, clever, and chilling but low expectations make it even more impressive.

Rango

Rent-it - Johnny Depp truly is Rango, a pet chameleon accidentally stranded in the Nevada desert, and just like Depp, Rango is charming, smart, creative, beautiful, and definitely not for kids! Though it definitely is an early front-runner for Best Animated Picture in 2011.

Insidious

Rent-it - The first 80 minutes will have you slumped in your seat until you jump up screaming, but this film about a family's haunted house/son will disappoint in the final 20, and then fail to stick with you the moment it's ejected.

The Adjustment Bureau

Buy-it - Is Matt Damon married? Because if so, he might be having an affair with Emily Blunt. These two stars light the screen on fire and their burning chemistry is reason enough to see this film about politics, life and love and whether or not we control our own destiny.

13 Assassins

Buy-it - Cult director Takeshi Miike (Audition) creates an epicly bloody samurai action film set in feudal Japan that is an impossibly unattainable, perfectly over-the-top, period masterpiece.

Of Gods and Men

Rent-it - This international drama about French Christian monks living in harmony with their Muslim brothers in North Africa is not only the best foreign film so far this year, it is probably the best film of the first half of 2011.

The Lincoln Lawyer

Buy-it - Early reviews had the world buzzing about Matthew McConaughey's return to the courtroom (A Time to Kill), however, recently, the buzz has turned into a low hum as The Lincoln Lawyer fails to offer a single twist on the predictable formula.

The Hangover Part II

Skip-it - Excedrin and Gatorade won't make you feel any better after watching this even raunchier sequel with about 1/10th the LOLs of the first film.

Green Lantern

Skip-it - If you don't know anything about the comic book superhero's mythology and need a completely adolescent explanation in an obnoxiously loud, visual-effect vomiting fashion, you might mildly enjoy this film. Otherwise, skip-it.

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Skip-it - This Jim Carrey family comedy has certainly flown under the radar. And it's not because penguins can't fly. As my good friend Ryan Beltz (@RJB1983) put it: "Jim Carrey has obviously decided at this point in his career he is going to follow down the Eddie Murphy road of comedy #talktoanimals"