Sherlock Holmes, Avatar, The Lovely Bones and more Daniel Walters, Erika Prins, Joel Smith, Kevin Taylor, Leah Sottile, Luke Baumgarten, Nicholas Deshais, Tammy Marshall

Psychic spies bring slapstick to the Iraq desert. War hasn’t been this much fun since 1812. Ed Symkus

The Professor Film series is like going back to college. Without tests. Plus drinks. Luke Baumgarten

In Lost, we care about John Locke and Ben Linus. In FlashForward, we don’t care about Generic FBI Guys No. 7 and No. 9.  Daniel Walters

The Shining, The Ring, Carrie. Pshaw. The real frights are in cartoons. Joel Smith

A lavish, adrenaline-fueled fighting and exploration game with the style and setting of a first-class Hollywood blockbuster Marty Demarest

Amelia isn’t a thrill a minute, but it’s that rare story of a woman who lives life on her own terms MaryAnn Johanson

A festival showing “GLBT” from all angles Erika Prins

Worth watching for the Inland Northwest color, this feature shot in Kootenai County in 2005 fails to rise above the level of local interest  Joel Smith

Director Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved book isn’t terribly wild MaryAnn Johanson

It’s a familiar shtick by now, but with less camera mugging by Michael Moore, Capitalism gets its point across Ed Symkus

Laugh your way to the apocalypse and  back again in search of the last Twinkie MaryAnn Johanson

A director and star known for eluding typecasting break the mold once again Ed Symkus

With its roofs made of pancakes and forts made of Jell-O, here’s an adaptation of a children’s book that will appeal to both kids and adults MaryAnn Johanson

There’s a lot going on in Quentin Tarantino’s latest. It all works MaryAnn Johanson