At The Movies With Peter Travers: Terminator: Salvation, The Girlfriend Experience and Night at the Museum

Its Memorial Day Weekend, which means giant Hollywood blockbusters at the multiplex, and this week there are two: Terminator: Salvation and Night At the Museum: The Battle of the Smithsonian. First up, Terminator: Salvation, the fourth installment in the man vs. robot series. While the film lacks the fire of star Christian Bales now-infamous F-bomb-dropping rant, Peter Travers says this film isnt half bad, thanks to co-star Sam Worthington, a young Russell Crowe without the attitude who will be seen later this year in James Camerons much-anticipated Avatar. Travers also applauds the work of the films director, McG.

And in the Scum Bucket is Night at the Museum: The Battle of the Smithsonian, the sequel to the equally Scum Bucket-worthy Ben Stiller film, which Travers insists made him puke.

For a better alternative and if you want to avoid the long lines for popcorn at the cineplex your indie theater will likely be showing Steven Soderberghs clever The Girlfriend Experience, starring porn star Sasha Grey, the subject of a recent Rolling Stone profile.

Read all of this weeks reviews:

Terminator: Salvation

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

The Girlfriend Experience

Easy Virtue