Moonlight Mile may be a sentimental, feel-good look at a family in mourning, but Jake Gyllenhaal rises above the clichéd script with a brilliantly creative performance.

We Were Soldiers
Borstal Boy
Plus 40 Days and 40 Nights

In "Notting Hill," a famous movie star falls in love with the proprietor of a bookstore -- Hollywood-speak for a creature doomed to extinction.

Tosca
Metropolis

Steve Martin’s uptighty whitey in Bringing Down the House falls miserably short of being funny; in Tears of the Sun, Bruce Willis gets to play Great White Father.

A straight-up shot of horror, via Stephen King’s Dreamcatcher, may restore Lawrence Kasdan’s box-office vitality; echoes of primal Mexico in Carlos Reygadas’s Japón.

A British import, 28 Days Later, brings the zombie genre back to life. Swimming Pool fails to make a splash.

In "Mumford," about a psychologist who actually makes people feel better, Lawrence Kasdan returns to the sunny side of the suburban street.