With the radiant The Stories We Tell, actress, writer and director Sarah Polley breaks into even new territory: the personal documentary. The result is an absolute triumph.

Already generating Oscar buzz, Stories We Tell is currently playing in theaters. Read Eric D. Snider's rave review.

First-time writer-director Adam Leon's Gimme the Lootis about teenage graffiti artists (which is to say, vandals) who smoke and sell weed, commit numerous petty thefts, attempt a burglary, and swear like sailors. They're the type of kids you'd at least disapprove of if you saw them on the street, and possibly actively avoid. And yet pound for pound, Gimme the Loot is every bit as charming and joyful as it is profane.

Gimme the Loot is currently playing in limited release. Read Eric D. Snider's review.

In Mina Nair's  The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a bright, Princeton-educated Pakistani man named Changez (Riz Ahmed) comes to realize that over-emphasizing the fundamental principles of any endeavor can lead to a rigid, black-and-white view of things that's too reductive to be useful in the real world. The film, adapted from Mohsin Hamid's novel, is valuable as well-intentioned dramatic entertainment, even if its examination of a foreigner's complicated feelings about America is rather superficial. Read Eric D. Snider's review.

Terence Nance writes, directs and acts in the truly independent film An Oversimplification of Her Beauty. Eric D. Snider is both charmed and impressed by the filmmaker's singular vision and the romance depicted on the screen.

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is currently playing in limited release. Read our review.