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Girls gone murderously wild

August Rush is a rather prosaic, oddly anxious, contemporary take on Oliver Twist, with Robin Williams – in nasty-man twee mode – thrown in for bad measure.

This spell isn't as bewitching the second time around

In something of a prequel, this is Jack Ryan's origin story – before Tom Clancy got his hooks in him.

Although the film hasn't the distinctive fingerprints of Eternal Sunshine director Michel Gondry, Chappelle's party is nevertheless a fun blast of impromptu musicmaking, filmmaking, and comedy.

A state program that enables offenders and their victims meet face-to-face has helped Andrew Papke take full responsibility for the drunken driving-related deaths of Beth Early and Daniel London.

B.J. Novak tells a touching tale of truth, myths, and Texas

Part one of epic anime quest is a fine first step

In 1930s Ukraine, young lovers fight Stalin and forced starvation

On the wars that never end all wars

Both Frank Miller's comic about the legendary battle of Thermopylae and Zack Snyder's cinematic adaptation are bloodthirsty affairs, awash in spectacle.

Richard Donner still has it. 16 Blocks may be a formulaic good-cops/bad-cops actioner, but it’s rarely stereotypical.

While Capote is a good film, it hasn’t closed the book on the subject, even though the performances are undeniably great.

Tasty psychological thriller from France (by way of Hitchcock).

Ti West returns with a brilliant period horror-porno (horno?)

Rich performances highlight the pain, hope, and heart in this staging of Samuel D. Hunter's family drama

The giving season can be murder in the original slasher

On Detroit, Uruguay, and shooting that scene

Some great performances punctuate the odd pacing in this adapatation of George V. Higgins' Cogan's Trade, set within the criminal underworld.

7.5: "The Angels Take Manhattan"

Ed Harris takes a turn behind the camera again in this Western in which he co-stars with Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, and Jeremy Irons.

The Wachowski brothers' hyperbolic film is supersaturated with outrageously eye-popping visuals, but there's nary an honest emotion in sight.

Hightower's latest is a collection of inspirational tales

This rocketing thriller that pits an unseen Filipino terrorist against an unwitting Filipino-American dupe is one of the purest examples of no-budget, seat-of-the-pants, gloriously DIY filmmaking since The Blair Witch Project.