An almost overwhelming sadness permeates every frame of "Michael Jackson's "This Is It."

Focusing on the random adventures of two young London outsiders, "Somers Town" is a small-scale jewel that will surprise you with its buoyant look at blighted lives.

Add "Earth Days" to the growing list of perfectly serviceable eco-documentaries that aim to educate the children, inform the masses and save our Earth from human excess and global warming.

The streets of Santiago are lifeless; the characters are soulless; the existence grim. Under these circumstances, one white leisure suit never represented so much hope and beauty, even if the man who wears it is pure darkness.

This is a coming-of-age story the likes of which you've seen many times before. It's the marvelous lead performance by newcomer Carey Mulligan that sets the movie apart.

Handsomely shot by director Richard Harrah and cinematographer Nelson Cragg in Arizona and Utah and featuring energetic performances by Bailey and especially Strahovski, "The Canyon" is undermined by the expectation of a big payoff that never comes.

Michelle Monaghan is a knockout in Trucker, a film stripped of excess and sentimentality.

Spike Jonze's dark kiddie flick tops the box office, while 'Paranormal Activity' continues to soar.

Don't go into this moving documentary thinking it's about star Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player LeBron James in particular or b-ball in general.

Law Abiding Citizen is a glib, brutal and preposterous revenge fantasy that taps into a lot of fears and genuine gripes about the American legal system.

Provided you are either a.) German or b.) well versed in German history dating from about 1970 on, you will completely understand and appreciate "The Baader Meinhof Complex."

Aviva Kempner's "Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg" is a lively, loving portrait of Gertrude Berg (1898 -1966), "the most famous woman in America you’ve never heard of."

You can be forgiven if the mind wanders during "Opa!" an amiable if easily forgotten story of middle-age romance set amid the sun-splashed Greek Islands.

Why is everyone in "Where the Wild Things Are" so insanely depressed?

This is a collection of shorts intended as one big love letter to the city and all the romance it has to offer. The result is a curiously bland hodgepodge.

The film about the misunderstood artist deftly portrays her hard-won emancipation.

Usually dashing and dangerous star, Clive Owen shows his paternal instincts in the bittersweet Aussie film.

As clichéd as the motocross movie is, it moves along and you root for High School Musical's Corbin Bleu.

When it comes to genre filmmaking, "Zombieland," a grisly comedy about yet another attack of the ravenous undead, does just about everything right.

Proving that demagoguery can come as easily from the left as from the right, Michael Moore has produced a jerry-rigged jeremiad about free enterprise that hands up some very legitimate indictments, without really making a case.