The Coen Brothers concoct another delicious trifle of a film, this time with Tom Hanks biting into the plum role of the Poe-spewing head of a band of misfit casino robbers.

Another Jet Li vehicle gone awry thanks to the Ritalin generation’s need for quick Mtv-style editing. Will someone keep the camera steady while Mr. Li works, please?

Writer-director Bill Condon’s quietly impressive biopic of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the pioneer of human sexuality research, is nearly as clinical in its storytelling as the man was in his research – which, as the doctor learned, can be both a strength and a weakness. Liam Neeson and Laura Linney are in fine fighting form as the doctor and his wife.

I don’t claim to be an Arthurian scholar, but I find it hard to believe that anything in this paper-thin, Jerry Bruckheimer-produced take on the legendary character is any closer to the ‘true story’ than, say, "Excalibur," "Camelot" or even "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (well, except for the singing).

Rather than supporting the cartoonish excesses of its predecessor, ‘Vol. 2’ stands as its own film. And a fine one at that.

Quentin Tarantino’s bloody, silly love letter to the grind house films of his youth is everything you would expect from a film-geek with endless filmmaking resources, proving once again that this is a writer-director of unique style and talent.

The surprises are all but extinct from this franchise, but a compact script and non-stop action keep this third installment moving. Unfortunately, the dinosaurs are too fun to be scary.

Exuberant performances by Edie Falco and Madeline Kahn brighten up Eric Mendelsohn’s dark portrait of love and loss on Long Island.