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It's breezily entertaining and culturally specific without resorting to gross-out jokes or cruelty.

Much of Undercover Brother plays as a funnier, if similarly addled, Bamboozled.

An earnest effort that too often betrays its good intentions with an overly heavy hand.

An ensemble drama that applies the Crash formula to New York and steeps it in Eastern religion, therapeutics and addiction while exhibiting a giggly suburban take on Manhattan kink.

This seaman's tale languishes in shallow waters.

Carl Brashear is a true American hero on several fronts. Men of Honor does him proud.

This mixed-up, self-important thriller is adapted by Richard Price from his own novel and wastes a talented cast.

Moviemakers who exploit the suffering and death of children to ratchet up the dramatic stakes belong in the innermost circle of hell, but Freedomland -- clumsy and overwrought as it is -- earns the right to its harrowing trajectory.

Takes on a plethora of phobias. Homophobia, racial prejudice and age discrimination are among its targets, and it hits them squarely and fairly.

An uneven but provocative drama.