THE HEIR APPARENT: LARGO WINCH (2008)

That’s quite the clunky title for such a nimble genre exercise.

THE MUPPETS (2011)

Jason Segel, a lifelong Muppet aficionado, cowrote the screenplay, and his affection for the characters lends the film a jolt of nostalgic sweetness.

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)

It still plays like the platonic ideal of the popcorn movie.

THE DESCENDANTS (2011)

As with everything the writer-director has made in the wake of 1999’s Election, the film defaults to broad comedy any time things promise to get too heavy or real.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN—PART 1 (2011)

Edward Cullen is a real beast in the sack.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (2011)

You don’t have to be as spiteful as a Slytherin alum to recognize what’s missing from David Yates’s handsome, action-packed but strangely perfunctory swan song.

INTO THE ABYSS (2011)

Even without the editorializing, this is undeniably a Herzogian enterprise.

LE HAVRE (2011)

Le Havre doesn’t push your emotional buttons—but then, it doesn’t push much of anything.

THE DOUBLE (2011)

The waves of unintentional laughter roll in early.