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The actors enthusiasm, couple with Boyles energy behind the screen, make magic out of ISlumdog MillionaireIs songs and sorrow, its bursts of energy and carefully selected moments of reflection. A story of coincidences and luck and eventually fate, its a classic, perhaps cliched tale-- but one that has rarely felt or looked so alive.

Between 1989 and 2003, the nation of Liberia, on the western, sub-Saharan coast of Africa, collapsed into a civil war between

Molly Hartley is a troubled teen -- misunderstood, depressed, haunted. School sucks, and her psychotic mother has just been locked up

In Mark Herman's adaptation of John Boyne's controversial children's bestseller offering a kid's-eye view of Holocaust, the young eight-year-old Bruno (Asa

It's a damn shame. As a stand-up Bernie Mac had no equal. He even made a winning transition to television with

Film Reviews: There's never a doubt that the losers-at-love of British writer-director Joel Hopkins' "Last Chance Harvey" are on intersecting arcs, that they'll meet cute and stroll off into a sooty London sunset. But stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are so disarmingly charming that even the most treacly moments work an emotional magic.

"Quantum of Solace" may not be as openly clever or as witty as "Casino Royale" but it's far more intelligent and relevant to today's world, and ultimately, that's what makes it a respectable Bond sequel.

Directed ably and passionately by Gini Reticker, IPray the DevilI uses interviews with the women involved as well as limited archival footage to make a powerful argument for everyday strength and resistance. Clocking in at just 73 minutes, IPray the DevilI is an economically told, extremely powerful story, a bolt of inspiration in what remain dark times for the entire world.

Film Reviews: A law student tries to play his cards right but instead finds himself in a downward spiral of crime and abuse in "The Past Is a Foreign Land."

Film Reviews: Glossy production values and a witty beginning clash with a narrative scramble in the espionage thriller "The Code."