Renting a DVD? BDN film critic Christopher Smith can help. Below are his grades of recent releases. Those in bold print are new to stores this week.
Adventureland — B+
Body of Lies — C
Coraline — A
Drag Me to Hell — B+
Dragonball: Evolution — C
Duplicity — C+
Eagle Eye — D
Earth — B
Elegy — A-
Fast & Furious: B-
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past — D
Gran Torino — A-
Hannah Montana: The Movie — C-
Happy-Go-Lucky — B+
The Haunting in Connecticut — C-
Hellboy II: The Golden Army — B+
I Love You, Man — B+
Knowing — B
Land of the Lost — BOMB
My Bloody Valentine 3-D — B-
Mutant Chronicles — D+
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist — B+
Observe and Report — C-
Obsessed — C-
Orphan — C-
The Proposal — C+
Push — C-
Race to Witch Mountain — C-
Role Models — B+
17 Again — C
State of Play — B-
Sunshine Cleaning — B
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 — B
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen — D
Valkyrie — B+
W. — C-
Watchmen — D
X-Men Origins: Wolverine — B-