Jordan Hoffman has seen the first superhero movie of 2012 and it is Steven Soderbergh's Haywire. It stars the Mixed Martial Arts champion/future household name Gina Carano. It's the greatest belated Christmas gift in years.

Michael Douglas and Ewan McGregor co-star in the latest treat from our of our most versatile filmmakers. Haywire opens in theaters today. Read our review.

The mother of a teenage boy who went on a high-school killing spree tries to deal with her grief - and feelings of responsibility for her child's actions. The remarkable Tilda Swinton stars in Scottish filmmmaker Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's best-stelling novel We Need To Talk About Kevin.

We Need To Talk About Kevin is currently playing in theaters. Read Jordan's review.

Director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody hit it big in 2007 with Juno, the story of a pregnant teen and her unborn baby's potential adoptive parents. Now, the two have teamed up again for Young Adult, the story of Mavis Gary, a ghostwriter for a young adult book series, who abandons her wrecked life in Minneapolis to travel back to her small hometown to win back her high school sweetheart, Billy Slade. Charlize Theron gives her all to portray the unlikable, failed seducer.

Now playing in theaters, Young Adult co-stars Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, and Collette Wolfe. Read Beck Ireland's review.

Dee Ree's debut film Pariah tells the story of Alike, a seventeen-year-old African American teen in Brooklyn coming to terms with her identity.  There simply isn't enough praise in the world for Adepero Oduye, writes Jordan Hoffman. The young actress was nominated for an Independent Spirit award.

Read Jordan's review.