A few of this week’s releases are actually due in stores on the 19th, so if you’re really eager for The House Bunny, Traitor, or The Women, you’ll just have to be patient. You should also probably get your head checked. This week’s biggest release is, of course, Mamma Mia!, a film that will surely fly off shelves. It is, like, totally the perfect holiday gift for your mom. And I don’t even know your mom!

Mamma Mia! – 193 Rankings – Average Tier 5.29
The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular ’70s group ABBA. Mamma Mia! @ Amazon

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor – 187 Rankings – Average Tier 2.68
In the Far East, trouble-seeking father-and-son duo Rick (Fraser) and Alex O’Connell (Ford) unearth the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin (Li) — a shape-shifting entity who was cursed by a wizard (Yeoh) centuries ago. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor @ Amazon

Traitor – 51 Rankings – Average Tier 5.16
A special operative working with a terrorist group becomes the target of the CIA. Traitor @ Amazon

The House Bunny – 31 Rankings – Average Tier 3.32
When Shelly, a Playboy bunny, is tossed out of the mansion, she has nowhere to go until she falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority – who also have got to be the seven most socially clueless women on the planet – are about to lose their house. They need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelley can provide… but they will each learn on their own to stop pretending to be what others want them to be and start being themselves. The House Bunny @ Amazon

The Women – 16 Rankings – Average Tier 2.69
A wealthy New Yorker leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women at a resort. A remake of George Cukor’s 1939 film “The Women.” The Women @ Amazon

Quality, not quantity! That’s a good motto to live by, and it goes for this week’s relatively small batch of new releases too. We almost always feature more films than we’re doing today, but very rarely do we get to heartily recommend two of them. Everyone already probably knows how great Dark Knight is. This is a movie that belongs in your personal collection now.

Another, much different film is nearly as good: Man on Wire. This is a documentary about a French trapeze artist’s walk between the Twin Towers. I don’t want to give anything away, but… he just about makes it, when suddenly The Joker appears on the other side and cuts the rope. A bloody, shocking ending to an otherwise worthy film.

Criticker Pick!The Dark Knight – 1892 Rankings – Average Tier 8.76
Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham’s new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker’s crimes grow more and more deadly. The Dark Knight @ Amazon

Horton Hears a Who! – 220 Rankings – Average Tier 5.50
Horton the Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbors who refuse to believe it exists. Horton Hears a Who! @ Amazon

Criticker Pick!Man on Wire – 47 Rankings – Average Tier 7.91
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974, what some consider, “the artistic crime of the century.” (imdb) Man on Wire @ Amazon

Anamorph – 17 Rankings – Average Tier 3.82
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas. (imdb) Anamorph @ Amazon