It's a spooky weekend at the cinema, which means that it's time for Peter Travers to take a look at gorefest Saw V and Swedish vampire tale Let the Right One In, as well as the latest Kevin Smith comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Click above to find out which movie is the best one to accompany your trick-or-treating and what deserves to be egged.

• Movie Review: Zack and Miri Make a Porno

• Movie Review: Let The Right One In

Today should be the day when the five films in the Saw series, starring the hood-eyed Tobin Bell as the evil Jigsaw, blow past eleven Friday the 13th flicks, starring whatever actor or stuntman they can shove behind the hockey mask as vengeful Jason Voorhees, to become the most successful horror franchise in box-office history. That means a take of more than $320 million. Talk about gross. Come on scare freaks, are you going to take that lying down? It's time for a vote, and I'm not just setting up Jigsaw against Jason. Here's the deal.

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Help! I'm having fantasies of Jigsaw, the villain in the Saw franchise, hacking up the cast of High School Musical 3: Senior Year, preferably before each caffeinated teenager begins a new musical number. I have nothing against G-rated movies—WALL-E was terrific. But HSM3 appears to be populated by pod people denuded of all the flaws that make us human. Sure, I'd advocate kids to be like the teens in HSM3, but only until they're eight years old. Originality is as absent here as sex. It's all white teeth and pink gums attacking us with broad smiles, flashing limbs and bland music. It's perkiness as a weapon of mass destruction. Night of the Living Dead isn't this terrifying. And here's the real scary part:

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In this week's video review, Peter Travers can't believe that there are two movies worth seeing this week: the latest Clint Eastwood-directed film Changeling and the pulpy cop drama Pride and Glory. Meanwhile, the Rolling Stone film critic reserves some room in a horrible place for High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Click above for thoughts on all three flicks.

• Film Review: Changeling

• Film Review: Pride and Glory

• Film Review: High School Musical 3: Senior Year

In this week's video review, Peter Travers focuses on the surreal Oliver Stone-helmed George W. Bush biopic W, as well as the Hollywood-baiting Robert De Niro comedy What Just Happened and the nonsensical video game adaptation Max Payne. Which movie is most deserving of your dedicated movie dollars in these lean economic times? Click below for the rundown from the Rolling Stone film critic.

• Film Review: W.

• Film Review: What Just Happened?

In this week's video review, Peter Travers explains the ups and downs of the Leonardo DiCaprio/Russell Crowe war thriller Body of Lies, Guy Ritchie's RockNRolla and the Bill Maher documentary Religulous. But first, a few more words on Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Click above for the full take from the Rolling Stone film critic.

• Movie Review: Body of Lies

• Movie Review: RockNRolla

• Movie Review: Religulous

Anne Hathaway gives an Oscar-worthy performance in Jonathan Demme's family drama Rachel Getting Married and Greg Kinnear stands out in a film about the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper in Flash of Genius. But Peter Travers has less praise for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and the awful Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Click above to watch his weekend forecast.