Sydney White, the titular heroine of this Snow White update, might find herself singing, "Someday, my prince will come." Or perhaps, "Someday, a bunch of princely movie critics may give my movie a good review." Sydney White stars Amanda Bynes as a college freshman who has to contend with a malicious sorority queen while whipping a frat of geeks into social shape. While critics agree Bynes is a talented actress who's rescued movies in the past, her comic skills go largely to waste here on a script that functions completely on stereotypes and does little to plant new twists on the classic fairy tale. In fact, the scribes say the unsubtle references to Snow White lore in the movie are jarring and distracting.

With Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg continues to utilize genre trappings for his singularly dark, bold vision. Promises stars Viggo Mortensen as a mysterious yet charismatic Russian hitman whose loyalties are put into question when he encounters Naomi Watts's character. Critics praise Eastern's tight pacing, grisly images that are shocking but short of exploitation, and Mortensen's daring performance. And a fight scene in a bathhouse between Mortensen and a group of thugs is being touted as one of the most impressive action set piecess in recent memory.