The Last House on the Left (2009)

In a remake of Wes Craven’s 1972 revenge tale, Tony Goldwyn and Monica Potter exact punishment against a family of degenerates for raping their daughter, becoming just as canny as the criminals with the use of a garbage disposal and microwave.

d: Dennis Iliadis | imdb.com | trailer | ready to do anything

Friday the 13th (2009)

Director Marcus Nispel restarts the slasher franchise in a glossier but familiar fashion: The boys are drunk and high, the girls are topless and Jason, in memory of his mother, kills almost all of them. He enjoys his work, impaling campers in myriad ways.

d: Marcus Nispel | imdb.com | trailer | He’s using him as bait.

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

Isla Fisher’s charm can’t save a screwball comedy about an addiction to shopping and credit card debt during the current economic crisis — serious subjects for a serious time. What was intended as light fare comes off as irresponsible.

d: P.J. Hogan | imdb.com | trailer | getting back the mail

Fanboys (2009)

In a movie about “Star Wars” fanboys that could appeal only to “Star Wars” fanboys, four self-indulgent geeks, joined later by Kristen Bell, travel from Ohio to George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in California to steal an early copy of “Star Wars: Episode I.”

d: Kyle Newman | imdb.com | trailer | Take your shirt off.

He’s Just Not That Into You (2009)

Ginnifer Goodwin — a cute, desperate gal — can’t get a second date in a movie that plays like a too-sweet sitcom with hugs and lessons. It’s just not believable that Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly and Drew Barrymore could be so insecure.

d: Ken Kwapis | imdb.com | trailer | He’s never going to call you.

My Bloody Valentine 3-D (2009)

In a remake of the 1981 slasher film, director Patrick Lussier invents new ways for a miner’s pickax to puncture the head and chest area — in 3-D. But the young cast is too pretty, their acting too wooden to make it more than a solid genre movie.

d: Patrick Lussier | imdb.com | trailer | Was he dead or not?