Even the ticket guy winced when I asked to see “Gemini Man,” the new Will Smith sci-fi-ish thriller.

Once I was watching the movie, I did, too.

But I winced most of all — or maybe I gasped – when the thing ended and the final credits read “Directed by Ang Lee.”

In the new movie “Judy,” Renée Zellweger doesn’t just impersonate Judy Garland. She inhabits her. Heart, soul, and amazingly enough, voice – or close enough. (Garland, like Streisand, will always be unique).

I don’t know what cell phone plan David Oyelowo is using in “Don’t Let Go,” but it’s a doozy.

Probably best known for his starring turn as Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma,” Oyelowo here plays Jack, an LAPD detective who has a particularly close relationship with his adorable, precocious teenage niece, Ashley (Storm Reid). 

When a movie starring a two-time Oscar winner, directed by a multiple Oscar nominee and based on a best-seller opens in mid-August, well, something’s wrong.

And something is. 

“The sea is always trying to kill you,” says Tracy Edwards at the beginning of the documentary, “Maiden,” about the first ever all-female crew to compete in the Whitbread round-the-world sailing race.

“The Fall of the American Empire” does only one thing well: fall apart.

Gracelessly. Stupidly. And without a shred of self-awareness.

The Canadian director Denys Arcand, who may be one of the most pompous and annoying filmmakers in the northern hemisphere, has concocted a cretinous crime caper that seems strung together from bits and pieces of every ‘70s cop show ever made.