Renting a video or a DVD? BDN film critic Christopher Smith can help. Below are his grades of recent releases in video stores. Those in bold print are new to video stores this week.

Akeelah and the Bee – B+

Because I Said So – C

Black Book – B+

Blades of Glory – B+

Blood Diamond – C+

Breach – B+

Bridge to Terabithia – B+

Casino Royale – A

Charlotte’s Web – B+

Children of Men – A

The Condemned – D

The Dead Girl – A-

Dead Silence – F

Deja Vu – C+

The Departed – A

The Devil Wears Prada – B+

Disturbia – B

Dreamgirls – B

Everyone’s Hero – C+

Evening – C+

Fail Safe – A-

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer – D+

Flags of Our Fathers – B+

Flushed Away – B+

1408 – B

Fracture – C

Georgia Rule – D+

Ghost Rider – C-

Hannibal Rising – C

Happy Feet – A-

The Hills Have Eyes II – D

HOSTEL II – C-

The Illusionist – B+

Infamous – B+

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry – D

Invincible – B

Inside Man – B+

The Invisible – C-

Knocked Up – A

The Last King of Scotland – B+

Little Children – A-

The Lives of Others – A

Lucky You – C+

A Mighty Heart – A-

Music and Lyrics – B

Next – D

Night at the Museum – C+

The Number 23 – D

Pan’s Labyrinth – A

Premonition – C-

The Prestige – B+

The Queen – A-

Ratatouille – A

The Reaping – D

Reign Over Me – C-

Rocky Balboa – B+

A Scanner Darkly – B+

Shooter – C+

Sicko – A-

Stanley Kubrick Director’s Series – A-

Surf’s Up – B+

TMNT – C

300 – C-

The Transformers – B+

28 Weeks Later – B

Vacancy – C+

We Are Marshall – D

Zodiac – C