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This week at the movies, we've got martial arts mayhem (Ninja Assassin, starring Rain and Naomie Harris); family-friendly hi jinks (Old Dogs, starring John Travolta and Robin Williams); and a post-apocalyptic trek (The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron). What do the critics have to say? It seems that the latest collaboration between the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix Trilogy) and James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) is a bit of a dud, and that the Travolta-Williams pairing in Old Dogs fails to work very effectively, despite the pedigree of its stars.

Viggo Mortensen tries to survive The Road.

It was one of my favorites of 2007, the story of a Russian mobster so brilliantly played by Viggo Mortensen. I had always wondered if this would be a stand alone project, but there was room at the end to further explore what happens with the characters of Nikolai and Kirill.