Live Free or Die Hard: Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) returns to fight Internet-based terrorists intent on shutting down the U.S. The action sequences rock, and Willis gets a witty back-and-forth going with Justin Long as the pasty-faced hacker sent in to help the Feds.
-MARC SAVLOV
Rescue Dawn: During the Vietnam War, U.S. pilot Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) was thrown into jungle prison camp but managed to escape, and director Werner Herzog has turned his experience into one of our great tales of survival. Bale totally captures that weird quality we call heroism.
-KENT WILLIAMS