Brick Lane Brick Lane shows us the life of a Bangladeshi woman, who moves to London to marry a man she's never met, keep house, raise a family, and eventually act on her squelched yearnings. - Josh Rosenblatt The Dark Knight Although the visuals soar and Heath Ledger's Joker is magnificent, this new Batman movie is grim and chilly, as if made for our new age of anxiety. - Marc Savlov Encounters at the End of the World Werner Herzog, contemporary cinema's most consistently lyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returns to the documentary form in yet another wonderfully improbable locale: Antarctica. - Marc Savlov Kismat Konnection New Bollywood romance. - Marjorie Baumgarten Mamma Mia! This film adaptation of the Broadway adaptation of a catalog of Swedish disco hits retains all the fun but remains astonishingly silly. - Kimberley Jones Meet Dave Eddie Murphy reteams with his Norbit director for this new extraterrestrial comedy in which miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. - Marjorie Baumgarten Savage Grace You can almost smell the desperation in the twisted psychosexuality of Savage Grace, the film purportedly based on the true story of a mother-son relationship that went tragically wrong. - Steve Davis Space Chimps NASA chimps are shot into space in this animated adventure. - Marjorie Baumgarten
