'The Tourist,' directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ('The Lives of Others'), is actually a remake of a 2005 French thriller about a wanted man seeking to outrun international police and the Russian mob who, through other agents, enlists an unwitting tourist to assume his identity. The director's updated version tries to instill a sense of spirited adventure in fantastic settings, but he’s traveling down the wrong road. Grade: D-plus.  

For the third 'Narnia' franchise installment, veteran director Michael Apted takes over helming duties performed by Andrew Adamson on the first two films. Sadly Apted, the filmmaker famous for the hugely influential '7Up' documentary series, is confined by a script that is a mere sketch of C.S. Lewis' original novel. The result is a disposable children's adventure story that wears its well-worn primary narrative device like an afterthought. Grade: C.  

Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky creates a murky 3-D stew of film references with abbreviated musical clips (from composer Tchaikovsky's iconic ballet and new listless songs from Oscar-winning lyricist Tim Rice) that fail to spark dreams of sugarplums and dancing fairies. Grade: D-.  

An assassin (Dong-gun Jang) who refuses to kill an infant and ends up hiding out in America with the baby among a carny troupe in the Wild West in 'The Warrior's Way.' Could Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name have survived as a ronin in the East? That's one of the interesting ideas audiences can contemplate while waiting for something of note to happen here. Grade: D-plus.  

Danny Boyle's '127 Hours' is another intriguing entry in the 54-year-old British director's diverse, rapidly expanding collection of films. Since his impressive mid-1990s one-two breakthrough of 'Shallow Grave' and 'Trainspotting,' Boyle has tried his hand at a number of genres, the sign of an adventurous filmmaker eager to take on new challenges. He discusses his career and '127 Hours' with CityBeat.  

The Bush administration picked the wrong family of Northern Californian atheists to paint with its pro-war brush of "hero" propaganda. The administration's attempted cover-up of the April 22, 2004, "friendly fire" murder of former pro football player Pat Tillman in Afghanistan is dissected in damning detail in Amir Bar-Lev's revealing documentary, narrated by Josh Brolin. Grade: A-.  

Filmmaker Yael Hersonski, herself the granddaughter of a Warsaw Ghetto survivor, rebuilds the rough cuts of a 1942 film into 'A Film Unfinished,' adding commentary from nine survivors as they watch the diary of a Jewish community leader who subsequently committed suicide, and damning testimony from Willy Wist, the only Nazi cameraman ever identified as having been employed on the project. Grade: B.  

Writer-director Paul Haggis goes the more conventional action-thriller route here as Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks play a married middle-class couple pursuing fugitive route after the wife is sentenced to a long prison term for the murder of her boss. Crowe is game, but Banks gets played by chess-master Haggis who is simply trying to keep too many pieces moving at once. Grade: D.  

Disney's latest reworked fairy tale is upon us, but despite all of the typical trappings 'Tangled' might keep our cynicism at bay via zippy old-fashioned nods to early movie serials and a sense of a world where magic is real but emotions and humanity matter even more. Grade: B-plus.  

An Iowa country girl with talent dreams of the big-time saves her pennies and makes the trip to the big city to take a shot at the prize of fame and fortune. We've seen this story a million times, and 'Burlesque,' with Christina Aguilera as the young aspirant and Cher as an aging mentor/club owner who gives the girl a chance, offers no new wrinkles. Grade: C-.  

Dwayne Johnson races down dark and dirty alleyways as an ex-con hunting down the men who double-crossed him during a major heist and killed his brother. Director George Tillman Jr. channels his inner Tony Scott here, but the script lacks a surprising or thrilling punch, and Tillman refuses to race fast and furiously into the darkest and most dangerous corners that would have at least made for some real B-movie glory. Grade: D.  

After hours of sitting with people who are supposedly related to you, sometimes you just need a break. The holidays are supposed to be a time a peace, which for most of us involves a lot of running around and a lot of "catching up" with folks you only see once a year. Instead of being rude and admitting that you hate all of them, take them to a movie. There's no better way to get a break from all the talking that happens when you're trapped in car with the same people you were previously trapped in a house with for 18 years.  

'127 Hours' is based on mountain climber Aron Ralston's memoir about his misadventure in Utah's Canyonlands National Park where he became trapped by a boulder and was forced to cut off his own arm in order to save his life. Boyle has fun playing with the challenge of presenting such a tale by compressing time with things like dream sequences that mirror Ralston's warped mental state that floated in while trapped in the middle of the desert. Grade: A.  

The same exponential decline in story complexity that occurred between the first and second cinematic installments of Stieg Larsson's posthumously published 'Millennium Trilogy' continues here. Where 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' had taut crisscrossing subplots of boundless internal and external significance, the final act of the trilogy is little more than a tepid courtroom drama with some willy-nilly spectacle thrown in for good measure. Grade: C-.  

Drawn from the same murky well of Hollywood ethical ambiguity that gave us 'Thank You for Smoking' and last year's 'Up in the Air,' 'Love & Other Drugs' audaciously defines its slick anti-hero protagonist as beyond reproach. The filmmakers are clearly banking on the allure of nude sex scenes between Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway to attract audiences, but the love story (and sex scenes) don't amount to much. Grade: C.