In the third kids’ flick about the prehistoric posse (the first two made a total of $372 million!), mammoths Manny (voice of Ray Romano) and pregnant Ellie (Queen Latifah) concentrate on feathering their nest, but ignore lonely sloth Sid (John Leguizamo) — who acts out, stealing three dinosaur eggs and getting the gang into trouble. This 3-D follow-up appeals to children and adults with sharp one-liners from a cast of ad-libbing pros. One recurring problem? Rude adult zingers, such as when weasel Buck (Simon Pegg), a new character, claims to have used a clamshell to “turn a T. Rex into a T. Rachel.”

Before the FBI gunned him down at age 31 in 1934, the dapper John Dillinger (a charming Johnny Depp) robbed banks across the country in Robin Hood-esque style. If Michael Mann’s gangster film just focused on the celeb bandit and his romance with a coat-check girl (the marvelous Oscar winner Marion Cotillard), it would be a success. But the movie bogs down when following a federal agent, played by Christian Bale, who acts with the same beady-eyed intensity he dis played in The Dark Knight and Terminator Salvation. (Note to Bale: More range, please!) Plus, the episodic script — overstuffed with burglaries and escapes — sacrifices the rhythm that characterized Mann’s best movies (Heat, The Insider). The uneven biopic’s pulled in so many directions, it loses the audience along the way.

A soldier (Jeremy Renner) leaves his baby-mama (Evangeline Lilly, in a minor role) stateside to defuse street bombs in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2004 — and discovers he’s most alive when facing down death. Still, the adrenaline junkie’s risks endanger the lives of his squad. Director Kathryn Bigelow has crafted a well-acted war film that’s as harrowing as it is unsentimental.