By BETSY PICKLE, Scripps Howard News Service

"Baby Mama" is cute and disposable, kind of like whimsically decorated plastic diapers.

For those who are wondering, "88 Minutes" isn't.It misses the mark by about 20 minutes, giving the film a slightly bloated aspect and leaving viewers feeling a bit cheated.

Kate Beckinsale has been in some big movies -- "Pearl Harbor," "Van Helsing," "Underworld," "The Aviator." But she's always happy to think small, as with the intimate drama "Snow Angels."

A slice of life that offers bitter along with sweet, "Snow Angels" is the kind of tautly observed drama that makes many viewers uncomfortable.It pays off, but it also exacts a price.

"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" strips away the pretense that males are always the tougher sex.

There's nothing like a thriller about criminals trying to beat the system by producing mass quantities of counterfeit money. There's certainly nothing else like "The Counterfeiters," an Austrian film in which the Nazis try to get the best of their enemies by forcing Jewish prisoners to create ersatz British pound notes and American currency.

A fairy tale made more for grown-ups than for children, "Under the Same Moon" is as shamelessly sentimental as a mariachi band's love song.

Video games with 3-D imagery. Music files with pristine reproduction. Digital photographs that preserve and reveal the moment simultaneously. We've gotten so good at living vicariously through technology that we often ignore the richness of the real world.

A remake in name only, "Prom Night" actually is a pleasant surprise.Yes, it's been promoted as another "psycho killer lays waste to randy teens" flick, but that's misleading. The killer is twisted in a complicated sense, and his mission is not one of murder but possession.

In some ways, "Smart People" takes the easy way out.It pokes fun at the ivory tower and bows to the cinematic trope that heart is more important than brains. It doesn't pretend that it plans to do otherwise.