Four Christmases” hurls towering Vince Vaughn at tiny Reese Witherspoon, and a lot of Oscars at a lightweight holiday farce. This comedy about a happy couple made miserable by having to visit four divorced parents begins with a bang but settles into sentiment so maudlin that even this cast can’t save it.

The family drama “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” depicts the Holocaust through the simplistic eyes of a child: all the brutality, all the absurdity, crystallized by the innocence of an 8-year-old boy.

Overlong and self-indulgent, Baz Luhrmann’s “Australia,” an homage to epic adventure films, feels like a slog through the outback itself. And yet it can be a visually wondrous journey, one with striking visuals that will take your breath away again and again. No one ever doubted the director’s capabilities as an inventive aesthetic stylist — this is the man, after all, who dared to set the balcony scene in a swimming pool in his revisionist “Romeo + Juliet” and who turned “Moulin Rouge!” into a dizzying dance of light and color, complete with Elton John and Nirvana songs.

You can almost feel the anticipation in the air for “Twilight.” Fans have devoured the novels by Stephenie Meyer with a blood lust. They also have burned up the Internet with good and bad speculation on what director Catherine Hardwicke has done to their beloved book.

Disney’s “Bolt” is the studio’s best non-Pixar animated movie in ages. It’s smart enough to keep adults on their toes and exciting enough to keep even an ADHD kid glued to his seat.