Safe House (2012)

Young gun Ryan Reynolds transports rogue CIA operative Denzel Washington from one safe house to another, fighting and chasing him along the way, in a pretty average spy thriller. Reynolds works hard, but he is too pretty, too Canadian to be a bad ass.

d: Daniel Espinosa | imdb.com | trailer | House guest
Car fight | I’m a police officer. | Who do you work for?

Green Lantern (2011)

The latest $150 million comic book fanboy inside joke isn’t good enough to be bad. It’s just boring — and it looks cheap. Ryan Reynolds, a maverick test pilot, finds this ring and then ... there’s this backstory, and you’ll wish you’ve never heard of planet Oa.

d: Martin Campbell | imdb.com | trailer | WonderCon 2011

The Proposal (2009)

Sandra Bullock forces assistant Ryan Reynolds to marry her, so she won’t be deported to her native Canada in a throwback to the romantic comedies of the 1930s. But there’s too much sentiment and not enough chemistry or comedy between Bullock and Reynolds.

d: Anne Fletcher | imdb.com | trailer | We’re getting married.

Adventureland (2009)

Recent college graduate Jesse Eisenberg falls in love with Kristen Stewart and smokes pot with the other dead-end kids at an amusement park in 1987. Eisenberg and Stewart are so natural together, and the film never plays the period for broad laughs.

d: Greg Mottola | imdb.com | trailer | Hired | Date with Lisa P.