No longer a wide-eyed child, Alice Kingsleigh (a pitch-perfect Mia Wasikowska) is now an easily distracted 19-year-old who seems hopelessly out of sync with her muted Victorian surroundings.
Dodging a garden-party marriage proposal from the dorky son of a lord and lady, Alice instead opts to take off after a pocket watch-clutching rabbit (voiced by Michael Sheen), giving those 3D glasses their first major workout as she plunges deeper and deeper into Underland. see more
There are no hurricanes in Dear John, the latest tearjerker adapted from a Sparks book, but military conflicts and life-threatening illness do play a part in separating John (Channing Tatum) and Savannah (Amanda Seyfried). The star-crossed lovers meet while John -- a soldier in the Army's Special Forces -- is home on leave. see more
With evil's armies amassing, an out-of-the-way desert truck stop becomes the unlikely supernatural battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the end of the world. Armed and united by the Archangel Michael, a group of strangers become unwitting soldiers -- and humanity's only hope -- to fight on the frontlines of the Apocalypse. see more
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4. Invictus
The true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match. see more
5. The Blind Side
Part football movie and part "Precious" with a happy ending, John Lee Hancock's "The Blind Side" is a heart-tugger that once again proves that sometimes truth (more or less) is stranger than reality. see more
6. It's Complicated
District 9 is the name of the refugee camp in Johannesburg, South Africa, where a large group of aliens who landed on earth have been forced to live for 28 years. Many humans have grown to have feelings of contempt and disdain for the extraterrestrials and their slum-like settlement. The aliens are given the derogatory nickname “prawns” based on their bottom-feeding habits. see more
7. Daybreakers
Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe star in a sci-fi action thriller about a future world where vampires reign supreme and blood is big business. Edward Dalton is a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race. see more
8. Sherlock Holmes
Every Holmes story is different and each one is the same, just as every day has its own saint but the Mass is eternal. "Sherlock Holmes" enacts the strange new rites of hyperkinetic action and impossible CGI, and Holmes and Watson do their best to upgrade themselves. Holmes tosses aside the deerstalker hat and meerschaum calabash, and Watson has decided for once and all to abandon the intimacy of 221B for the hazards of married life. Both of them now seem more than a little gay; it's no longer a case of "oh, the British all talk like that." Jude Law even seemed it be wearing lipstick when he promoted the movie on Letterman. see more
9. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
"Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," which builds on the wit, the whimsy and the shredding bass that was 2007's "Alvin and the Chipmunks," the blockbuster hit that would turn the musical 'Munks into 21st century pop sensations.
But if the pop world has taught us anything in recent years, it's just how tough it is to keep young egos in check when celebrity arrives too early in life. As the film, opens Alvin (Justin Long) is out of control, while Simon (Matthew Gray Gubler) and Theodore (Jesse McCartney) are turning into typical teenagers. Factor in their rock star life -- the screaming fans, the limos, the paparazzi -- and you've got a lot of very hairy problems. see more
10. Edge of Darkness
Mel Gibson stars as Thomas Craven, a veteran Boston homicide detective on a mission of vengeance. When his only child, 24-year-old Emma, is murdered on the steps of his home, eeveryone assumes that he was the target.
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