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What it's about: Chicks in bikinis fight guys with swords. It's modeled after a fighting game, and the movie doesn't look like it added a ton of plot or anything, though the fanboys are already up in arms over the fact that the women aren't fighting each other in the trailer.

Why you should not: It could be as tedious as Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

How to Eat Fried Worms Starring: Luke Benward (Because of Winn-Dixie) and Hallie Kate Eisenberg (The Goodbye Girl)

Written and directed by: Bob Dolman (The Banger Sisters), based on the novel by Thomas Rockwell

What it's about: Fifth-grade kid goes head-to-head with the school bully by accepting a dare to eat 10 worms in a single day.

Why you should see it: The classic children's book brings hope and courage to a new generation of victimized youth. Who don't read books.

Why you should not: How many classic-children's-book adaptations can you name?

Idlewild Starring: André Benjamin (Four Brothers), Antwan Patton (ATL) and Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow)

Written and directed by: First-timer Brian Barber

What it's about: Benjamin and Patton (the real-life duo of OutKast) play a couple of, um, ahead-of-their-times musicians in a 1930s Southern juke joint. Elaborate musical numbers compete for attention against gangster politics as big, bad Howard comes to town to muscle in on the club.

Why you should see it: Musically, Benjamin and Patton are at the top of their game, the concept of injecting their tunes with the flavor of old-school jazz has major promise, and Benjamin has already shown that he has screen skills.

Why you should not: Neither period black-gangster films (Harlem Nights) nor musical gangster films (Bugsy Malone) tend to stand the test of time.

Invincible Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear and Michael Rispoli

Directed by: Ericson Core (TV's Family Law)

Written by: Brad Gann (Black Irish)

What it's about: A down-on-his-luck Philadelphia Eagles fan (Wahlberg) decides to attend an open tryout for the team and gets to live out his dream of playing professional football. From the producers of The Rookie, it's the same basic idea and similarly based on true events.

Why you should see it: The Rookie was formulaic, but it worked and even appealed to people who couldn't care less about baseball.

Why you should not: Mark Wahlberg is no Dennis Quaid.

Material Girls Starring: Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff and Anjelica Huston

Directed by: Martha Coolidge (The Prince & Me)

Written by: John Quaintance, Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin

What it's about: Duff and Duff play sisters — how about that? — who gots plenty of dough from their family's cosmetics company. But when the family biz is bankrupted by scandal, will the Duffs ever learn how to cope with being poor?

Why you should see it: Coolidge directed Valley Girl ...

Why you should not: ... four years before Hilary Duff was born.

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Crank Starring: Jason Statham, Amy Smart and Efren Ramirez (Napoleon Dynamite)

Written and directed by: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (visual-effects artists on Biker Boyz)

What it's about: A hit man (Statham) is injected with a new designer drug that will kill him if his adrenaline level drops too low, so in order to find the person responsible and not die, he must remain agitated and excited. That shouldn't be too hard.

Why you should see it: Statham's Transporter movies have been over-the-top junk-food pleasures. Plus, how can you vote against Pedro?

Why you should not: Someone please explain how the effects guys from Biker Boyz have earned the right to direct a major movie.

The Return Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sam Shepard and Peter O'Brien

Directed by: Asif Kapadia

Written by: Adam Sussman

What it's about: Gellar plays a young woman whose life gets wacky when she begins to have nightmares about the 25-year-old murder of, yes, a young woman.

Why you should see it: Buffy doing what Buffy does best.

Why you should not: Die, Buffy, die!

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Agnes and His Brothers Starring: Martin Weiss, Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run) and Herbert Knaup

Written and directed by: Oskar Roehler

What it's about: A trio of brothers — one now a woman — attempt to discover the reasons behind their unhappy relationships. Could it be ... dad?

Why you should see it: Sex addiction, suburban anomie and transsexual chic.

Why you should not: German family dramas: always a pleasure.

The Heart of the Game Starring: Ludacris (Crash), Devon Crosby Helms and Maude Lepley

Written and directed by: Ward Serrill

What it's about: The world of high school basketball gets another documentary treatment, this one about a Seattle girls team and its irrepressible coach.

Why you should see it: The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat and you are there!

Why you should not: There's no reason to believe the gender switch will help circumvent the sports-movie clichés.

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man Starring: Leonard Cohen, Bono and the Edge

Directed by: Lian Lunson