Friday movie reviews

Befitting the dog days of August, this is when studios dump their garbage movies into theaters. You can tell they have little confidence in them when they refuse to screen them in advance for critics; hence, no reviews for College and Disaster Movie this week.

UPDATE: The reviews are starting to trickle in. I’ve added some recent ones (italicized).

Babylon A.D. (Fox)

Daily Variety (Jordan Mintzer)

New York Times (A.O. Scott)

College (MGM)

Daily Variety (Rob Nelson)

New York Times (Laura Kern)

Disaster Movie (Lionsgate)

Daily Variety (Joe Leydon)

Traitor (Overture)

Daily Variety (Todd McCarthy)

Los Angeles Times (Michael Phillips)

New York Times (A.O. Scott)