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RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Standard Operating Procedure: Documentary. Directed by Errol Morris. (R. 118 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select theaters, go to sfgate.com/movies.) The notorious...

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Redbelt: Drama. Starring Chewitel Ejiofor, Emily Mortimer, Alice Braga, Tim Allen, Rebecca Pidgeon and Joe Mantegna. Directed by David Mamet. (R. 99 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) In his engrossing new film, "Redbelt," David Mamet...

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE)Roman de Gare: Suspense. Starring Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant and Audrey Dana. Directed by Claude Lelouch. In French with English subtitles. (R. 103 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) What do we make of Fanny Ardant? That she was always...

"Surfwise" has a bohemian vibe and a cool sheen, but it's an eager-to-please, pleasing commercial enterprise with a reassuring narrative arc.

"Speed Racer" sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity.

If the camera adds 10 pounds, Emile Hirsch could use a couple of cameras. A wisp of man at 5-foot-7, it's hard to imagine the ...

Apparently what passes for comedy today is a new form of toilet humor involving the creative use of sinks. What Happens in Vegas ...

Time flies, as does a fur, and a young boy flees in this week's top three picks.

It takes a special weirdo to empathize with Michael Jackson's discontent. It takes an extra-special one to construct an entire film around Diego Luna as a Jackson impersonator. Luckily, the notorious Harmony Korine, writer of "Kids," director of "Gummo," is just such a weirdo. He begins his baleful, dreamy "Mister Lonely" with a slow-motion shot of a boy on a ...

"Fugitive Pieces" is a politely made drama about a dull writer named Jakob (Stephen Dillane) and the sad, nervous boy (Robbie Kay) he used to be. The Nazis assassinated Jakob's Polish family during the Holocaust, and he winds up in the loving custody of Athos (Rade Serbedzija), an archeologist who rears him first in his native Greece, then in Toronto.