The Summer of the Documentary

Forget noisy, empty blockbusters like "The Day after Tomorrow" and "The Chronicles of Riddick:" socially conscious documentaries are doing extraordinarily well this summer. The hard-hitting overview of business wrongdoing "The Corporation," Morgan Spurlock's fast food expose "Super Size Me" and Jehane Noujaim's Al Jazeera doc "Control Room" are earning high per-screen grosses and critical acclaim. But the best is yet to come: Michael Moore's terrific anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11" opens on June 25. Look for our review in the next few days.