Grades for new movies to be released on DVD Tuesday (May 13)

(Click on the title to read a review)

The Great Debaters: Denzel Washington stars as Professor Melvin Tolson, who used unconventional and tough teaching methods in the 1930s to create a debate team at Texas’ small African-American Wiley College that was good enough to challenge Harvard University’s national championship team. Grade: C

Mad Money: Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes and Diane Keaton team to rob one of the world’s most secure banks. Grade: D-

Untraceable: Diane Lane and Colin Hanks play FBI agents who must track down a killer who displays his victims on the Internet and leaves their fates up to those who visit his Web site. Grade: F

Youth Without Youth: Francis Ford Coppola directed this story of an aging college professor (Tim Roth) who not only finds his youth restored following a cataclysmic event, but also his intellect heightened, attracting the attention of Nazi scientists. Grade: D-