There's some riveting stuff going on in “The Fourth Kind,” a tale of alien abduction in Nome, Alaska. But did it really happen?

Jim Carrey's portrayal of Scrooge is surprisingly even-handed, but filmmaker Bob Zemeckis goes overboard with special effects in this version of  "A Christmas Carol," and the story is lost.

I have no idea if AMC’s “The Prisoner” will be any good. Frankly, I don’t care. As far as I’m concerned, it has already justified its existence by prompting the release of the original “Prisoner” on Blu-ray.

"Gentlemen Broncos” can be summed up in five words: boobs, balls, barf and bucks. Lightening hasn't struck twice for “Napoleon Dynamite” writer/director Jared Hess.

It possesses the best title of the season, but “The Men Who Stare at Goats” is good in name only. The rest is little more than regurgitated Joseph Heller filtered through the unimaginative mind of a Coen brothers wannabe. It’s funny, all right, but only sporadically, and only because of the ability of George Clooney and Jeff Bridges to enliven a political satire that’s more drab than droll.

 “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,” author David Wallace Foster’s observations on piggish American males, is John Krasinski's first stab as a feature film director.

I’m always disappointed in myself when I learn a movie that captures my interest was a book first. It happened with “Fight Club,” which is probably my favorite movie. The book was better, at least the end made more sense and was more gratifying, but it’s not among my Top 5. Go figure. Incidentally, Chuck Pahlaniuk knows a lot of weird, weird stuff.

The director of the indie favorite “Napoleon Dynamite” and the Jack Black wrestling yarn “Nacho Libre” now brings us “Gentlemen Broncos,” another eccentric ode to outcasts.

George Clooney's latest, "Men Who Stare At Goats" opens tomorrow.

Tour brings 'Fiddler on the Roof' star Chaim Topol to Boston for what may be this last turn with "Fiddler on the Roof."