Not even scenery-chewing performances from Cuba Gooding Jr and Anthony Hopkins can save this rehashed, predictable “Silence of the Lambs in the Mist” story.

Style-master Michael Mann’s fact-based little-man-vs.-Tobacco story – featuring Al Pacino in full scenery-chewing mode, Russell Crowe in a perfectly restrained performance and Christopher Plummer in a spot-on riff of Mike Wallace – is a little long but worth the investment.

Writer-director Paul Weitz crafts a bittersweet tale of a young upstart who finds corporate America not all it’s cracked up to be. A minor comedy with minor revelations featuring major performances by Topher Grace and Dennis Quaid (whose career is shaping up into everything Harrison Ford’s should have been).

Taut, cat-and-mouse police thriller – which follows two moles from each side of the law – is everything Michael Mann’s “Heat” set out to be.

‘Iron Giant’ creator Brad Bird somehow manages to raise the bar at Pixar yet again with his story of a retired superhero brought back into action with his equally super family in tow. Stunning production design, pitch-perfect writing and the by-now-requisite jaw-dropping animation make this one of the best animated films of all time.

If “The Fifth Element” were remade in Eastern Europe twenty years ago, it might resemble this jumbled mess of a film in which the gods of ancient Egypt descend on New York circa 2095 (yes, really).