Mini-Review: When it comes to family togetherness, love and quality time are thicker than blood, water or just about any other social glue you can think of. That's the admirable if hardly news-breaking message of Rodrigo Garcia's domestic drama Mother and Child, whose official thread is the impact of adoption on three different women.

Mini-Review: Furry Vengeance is a slapstick stinker, easily the worst movie of the year.

Mini-Review: The Losers is the ultimate example, scraped from the bottom of the comic-book barrel, where writer Andy Diggle's figurine-like characters first had their exploits in an exciting War on Terror.

Mini-Review: Fusing teen comedy, bad-boy raunch, Tarantino-style gonzo mayhem, and tossing in a bloodthirsty little girl vigilante who swears like Steve Buscemi in a Coen brothers movie, the film has its moments of high-flying, low-down style. It's also nowhere near as subversive as it thinks it is.

Mini-Review: It's an uneven proposition, veering wildly from genuinely funny scenes directly into ridiculousness and back again. But every time Shawn Levy's movie makes that journey, it's harder to get back on solid footing.