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Johnny Depp stars as legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger, whose lightning raids made him the No. 1 target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI, in Public Enemies.

It’s tough to watch Johnny Depp these days when he’s not wearing eyeliner, a do-rag and a monkey on his shoulder. After gooping up Finding Neverland, glowering vacantly through Sweeney Todd and annihilating every sprinkle of dignity in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, how can he be trusted with another larger-than-life character defined by a complicated past?

Paramount Pictures

Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf make a run for it in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Machines have feelings too. In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the follow-up to the lucrative original, which grossed nearly $800 million worldwide, director Michael Bay gives us the soft side of those delicate Autobots, the giant heaps of bolts who came to Earth only to have their rear-ends kicked and sent back to their home planet Cybertron in shame and tears.

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Nick Rosen, 29, was the skeptic chosen to be front and center in Kate Churchill’s documentary Enlighten Up, an examination of yoga.

It was all supposed to be fairly simple for filmmaker and yoga enthusiast Kate Churchill. The idea for her documentary, Enlighten Up, was to take an average yoga skeptic and put him through a six-month experiment during which they would travel the world meeting yogis and yoga practitioners, and gain an understanding and an appreciation.