Your guide to movies playing in Aiken this weekend

Green Zone NEW

All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of "Green Zone," Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm. Their thriller about the futile search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is a visual and visceral knockout that's utterly deflated by a story as common, coarse and unappetizing as Army field rations. The movie pales further by arriving in theaters just days after the Academy Awards triumph of the vastly superior Iraq war story "The Hurt Locker," a film many people have yet to see. "Green Zone" emulates the let's-build-a-democracy-just-like-ours intent of the U.S. occupation of Iraq in 2003, as chronicled in Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran's "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," a book cited in the credits as the inspiration for the movie. You've got the incorruptible working-class patriot in Army Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon), who leads a WMD team frustrated that detailed intelligence reports continually fail to turn up any traces of Saddam Hussein's supposed arsenals. There's barely a story to hold "Green Zone" together. For pure ambiance, "Green Zone" is a marvel. Though shot in Morocco, Spain and England, the action feels as though it takes place in the heart of Baghdad. Chandrasekaran's book is a work of sharp, informative journalism. That "inspired by" credit sounds a little insulting when the result is tired, standard action fare such as "Green Zone."

2 stars out of 4 -- David Germain, Associated Press

Rated R for violence and language. Running time: 114 minutes.

Our Family Wedding NEW

Forest Whitaker has the Bernie Mac role and Carlos Mencia fills in for George Lopez in "Our Family Wedding," a broad and formulaic culture-clash comedy built on fill-in-the-blank wedding comedy cliches. The novelty here? The cultures clashing are Mexican-American and African-American. The filmmakers leave few stereotypes unuttered in this cute yet coarse, sweet and slow farce about America Ferrera tying the knot with Lance Gross. Their characters are co-habiting New Yorkers who trek back to L.A. to surprise each other's family with the news that, yes, they've been dating outside their race and culture and, yes, they're getting married. Since their equally successful dads (Whitaker and Mencia) are as quick to play the race card as they are to blurt out "YOU people," this could get interesting. And messy. Only it doesn't. This meek little laugher doesn't have the wit to take things into uncomfortable territory and doesn't have the cast to make the thin set-ups - an inter-family softball game, inter-family cake fights, "tradition" bashing and bonding - sing. "Our Family Wedding" is like a wedding for an iffy marriage: It begins with a little promise and attains a hint of edge before the air goes out and we're all fleeing before they shove cake in each other's faces.

11âÑ2 stars out of 4 -- Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune

Rated PG-13 for some sexual content and brief strong language. 1 hour, 41 minutes.

Remember Me NEW

As a package pandering to members of the Rah Rah Rob Pattinson Fan Club, "Remember Me" showcases the "Twilight" hottie in all his zoned-out, sideburned, hair-tossled and chin-flexing glory. Pattinson is placed in a romantic setting, gets to smoke and play tough, gallant and troubled. And if there are no fangs, Team Edward can still imagine them there. But Pattinson's fussy, affected acting, his grab bag of screen mannerisms and a script that has him lurching between moony romantic and wild-eyed psychotic do nothing to suggest dude has a prayer of a fangless career. A more "adult" romantic melodrama that pushes the boundaries of how sexual you can get without earning an R-rating, "Remember Me" smashes mushy up against mental illness. Pattinson plays Tyler, a morose, aimless and seemingly bipolar hunk who dotes on his much younger sister, mourns a dead brother, gets into fights just to feel something and dates a cop's daughter just to get back at the NYPD detective (Chris Cooper) who roughed him up. But this girl (Emilie de Ravin) isn't to be trifled with. She's interested, even though he asks her out with his face all beaten up. She stays interested after seeing his violent temper and his moods and meeting his jerk workaholic dad (Pierce Brosnan) and needy little sister (Ruby Jerins). But someday, he's going to cross paths with her dad, who will remember him. Someday he's going to find out why she never rides the subway - 10 years before, in 1991, her mom was murdered right in front of her. And eventually, as a viewer, you'll do the math adding 10 years to 1991 and figure out where this contraption is headed.

1 star out of 4 -- Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune

Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual content, language and smoking. 1 hour, 48 minutes.

She's Out of My League NEW

Kirk is so bird-chested he doesn't even fill out his TSA airport security uniform. He drives a battered Neon, has next to no ambition and apologizes to one and all at the drop of a hat - even if it was somebody else's hat. And Molly, the blonde who has a law degree but who would rather be a high-end, highly paid event planner? "She's a hard 10," Stainer notes. "A HARD 10." What on earth could she see in him? The sweet-spirited and well-acted "She's Out of My League" takes that "Knocked Up"âÑ "50 First Dates" loser guy-hot girlfriend cliche around the block a few more times. There are a few sensitive scenes, but it's the big blasts of raunchy that deliver its laughs. No, we still don't believe them as a couple. No, there aren't many surprises here. But "She's Out of My League" demonstrates that the Judd Apatow blend of sweet and crude can be photocopied, even by the guys who scripted that "Sure Thing" ripoff, "Sex Drive."

2 stars out of 4 -- Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune

Rated R for language and sexual content. 1 hour, 44 minutes.

Brooklyn's Finest

In the course of one chaotic week, the lives of three conflicted New York City police officers are dramatically transformed by their involvement in a massive drug operation. The cast includes Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Will Patton, Lili Taylor and Ellen Barkin. The film is written by Michael C. Martin and directed by Antoine Fuqua.

2 stars -- Colin Covert, McClatchy-Tribune

Rated R for violence, strong sexuality, nudity, drug content and language. 140 minutes.

Alice in Wonderland

Alice returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen's reign of terror. The cast includes Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas and Mia Wasikowska. Screenplay is by Linda Wolverton, from the books by Lewis Carroll. Tim Burton is director.

3 stars -- Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune

Rated PG for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar. 1 hour, 45 minutes

Cop Out

Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan and a host of supporting actors labor through this derivative buddy-cop comedy set in Brooklyn. There are nonstop high jinks but not too many laughs.

2 stars -- David Hiltbrand, McClatchy-Tribune

Rated R for pervasive language including sexual references, violence and brief sexuality. 1 hour 42 minutes.

The Crazies

A timely - and ultimately unpalatable and grisly - remake of George Romero's 1973 B-movie about a community gone mad, burning and shooting and acting all zombielike in the wake of a secret government-perpetrated biological accident. Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell are the smalltown sheriff and his pregnant doctor wife, running for their lives.

21âÑ2 stars -- Steven Rea, McClatchy-Tribune

Rated R for bloody violence and language. 1 hour 40 minutes.