Movie Releases - 2/26/10

Cop Out

Kevin Smith directs Tracy Morgan & Bruce Willis in a take off of the 80s black-white buddy cop comedies. The red band trailer was OK the 1st time through, but phallic jokes have a short 1/2 life. Willis looks bored, Morgan overdoes it, & Smith hasn't done anything worthwhile since the Clerks screenplay. Seann William Scott is usually great.



The Crazies

Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell try to fight off residents of their Kansas hometown who start going crazy because of contaminated drinking water. Breck Eisner (Sahara) directs. Pretty good reviews if this type of movie is your thing.



The Prophet

A best foreign language film nominee for the upcoming Oscar ceremony, this limited release has an illiterate young man beginning a prison stint who has to deal with the system. Directed by Jacques Audiard, who made the very good Read My Lips and the overpraised The Beat That My Heart Skipped.