Julia Roberts’ bitter bad teacher is the best thing about Tom Hanks and Nia Vardalos’ stillborn comedy about a downsized big-box clerk who goes back to school and trades his SUV in for a scooter. Read more>>

Azazel Jacobs follows up his promising Momma’s Man with an indie-by-numbers about an obese teenager that begins promisingly but eventually disintegrates into one long Breakfast Club confrontation. Read more>>

Three disgruntled employees (Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day) plot to kill their bosses (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston) in a comedy that’s less Office Space than a more timid “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” starring a Hangover replacement cast. Read more>>

It’s a terrific premise for a farce because – who hasn’t had a horrible boss? And how much abuse is an employee willing to take before he actually considers committing coldly calculated murder? Read more

There’s plenty to look at in the grand finale of this phenomenally lucrative franchise; the rest depends on your tolerance for J.K. Rowling’s bait-and-switch plotting and whether you mind that the series never never considers what good should do — in the Muggle world, perhaps — once it triumphs. Read more>>

It’s The Blair Witch Project meets Borat when a college news crew tags along with a hunter of giant trolls (including one with three heads) in Norwegian writer-director André Ovredal’s well-made and deeply silly feature debut. Read more>>