Vanessa Hudgens

Spring Breakers (2012)

Four college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation, and while partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer.

Slickly made morality play exacerbating the sex and violence elements of the story, and the performances are good with Franco upping the ante as the low-life drug dealer; however, basically the result is not much different than an exploitation flick from 70s or 80s.

Vanessa Hudgens

The Frozen Ground (2013)

An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of a serial killer to bring the murderer to justice.

Basically OK crime drama with some good performances doesn't add anything new to the genre.

Maltin**: "Sordid, fact-based account...well made and well acted, but it wallows in graphic depictions of the worst kind of violence against women that it claims to be condemning. This is entertainment?"

Sucker Punch (2011)

A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather and by retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.

Wildy offkilter, but strangely fascinating fantasy, which drifts off into surreal dreamscapes with a videogame aesthetique and reveals a bleak vision of the real world.

Maltin**: "Genuinely weird, broadly played, comic-bookish film is all style, with little substance that isn't laughable. Will it inspire or empower dowtrodden adolescent girls...or will it just make them want to play video games?"

Vanessa Hudgens

ph: Tesh