Days of Glory, the English title of Rachid Bouchareb's film - called Indigènes, or 'natives', in French - has a rousing, somewhat generic war-movie ring. And Mr.

Best known for playing muse to Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick was a dazzling young socialite who found herself at the apex of the pop art scene in 1960s New York. In FACTORY GIRL, Sienna Miller is the enchanting, enigmatic Edie, offering a moving characterization of the extremely troubled model/actress.

Three Sudanese men struggle to adjust to life in the United States -- from their perspective, a very strange place -- in this affecting and well-made culture-shock documentary.The central figures are members of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan, tens of thousands of young men separated from their families, who oftentimes were murdered, during that nation's horrific civil war.

George Miller, the man who gave the world Babe, now does for penguins what he did for pigs in this toe-tapping, "happy feat" of remarkable animated movie-making.

In E.B. White’s novel, a tiny pig discovers that the most precious gift in the world is the bond of friendship. Now this beloved, quintessentially American children’s tale – which was previously made into a 1973 Hanna-Barbera cartoon – is on the screen in live-action, combining barnyard animals with “Babe”-like CG-assisted animatronics.

The young doctor thinks he's in Africa for all the right reasons, but we can tell early on that he's not. So can his powerful benefactor, an insecure, homicidal dictator who goes by the name of Idi Amin.

Peter O’Toole, 74, plays a still-employable British actor in thrall to a friend’s grand-niece, nineteen-year-old Jessie (Jodie Whittaker). Don’t go, ‘Eww.’

The Argentine director Fabián Bielinsky died after a heart attack in June 2006, at 47, leaving behind a small but potent body of work. His first feature film, Nine Queens, a gritty, twisting crime story, holds a special place in the recent wave of innovative filmmaking to come out of Argentina.

Gela Babluani’s feature-length début could be the best film you will see all year. Shot in glorious black and white, 13 Tzameti takes the old thriller paradigm (one room, two people, and a gun) to a whole new level.

With her Marge Simpson pearls, toothy grin, and unshakable belief in the essential decency of human nature, Hilary Swank cuts a decidedly anachronistic figure in Freedom Writers, Richard LaGravenese's fact-based inspirational-teacher drama.