Warning: What follows is explicit. These movies (and their accompanying photos) are not chosen for their beauty, but rather for their primal power to shock. And why is that important?

Mel Gibson was supposed to have a cameo in The Hangover Part II but didn’t. What happened?

The Raid Already a hit on the festival circuit, Gareth Evans’s thriller about Indonesian cops fighting their way out of a drug lord’s locked-down lair may be the most relentless, visceral action movie we’ve seen in a decade. Trust us: The hype is well deserved. (Mar 23)

From Cambridge-area art houses and Chinatown movie palaces to X-rated theaters in the Combat Zone, Greater Boston has had its share of cinemas…

ContagionA deadly disease. An all-star cast (Damon! Cotillard! Paltrow! Winslet!). Is Steven Soderbergh turning into Irwin Allen? We have it on good authority that this virus-on-the-loose thriller is much more upscale than that.—KU (Sep 9)

What better way to honor the sacrifice of Memorial Day than with a ranked list of cinematic greatness? TONY Film has slogged through its own basic training to arrive at the 50 ultimate war movies—and not merely the ones with the biggest battle scenes (though expect plenty of ammo).

Everybody is kung fu fighting…again. Po the panda (Black) and his fellow animal warriors return to save China from destruction and fill the DreamWorks coffers to brimming in this colorful 3-D continuation of Kung Fu Panda…

As engrossing as it is maddening, Pierre Thoretton’s doc on the sale of Yves Saint Laurent’s extensive art collection is perched somewhere between a sanded-edged official portrait and a keen examination of affluence run amok…

What poetry there is in Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel’s slipshod documentary (shot in 2008) comes almost entirely from its subjects…

A woman stands in a field at sunset. She’s holding her infant son, whose expression is blank-slate curious—everything seems new and wonderful. It’s an enchanted moment, one made all the more magical when the mother points to the infinite expanse overhead…