Artist: Downsyde. Album: All City.
Artist: Priscilla Ahn. Album: A Good Day.
Joe Wright's direction is as tasteful as his white man's burden. Susannah Grant's screenplay is spun from the finest recycled gossamer. The onscreen talent and production values are hopelessly carbon neutral. Grade: B
Unexpectedly sweet, authentic, romantic—with nary a fart joke to be heard. Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart's chemical romance is damaged, incendiary and pleasurable. Grade: B+
Artist: U2. Album: No Line on the Horizon.
Director Alex Proyas mounts this apocalyptic New Age garbage with almost defiant handsomeness. The disaster-porn sequences are particularly striking, managing not only to seem fresh despite the preponderance of such scenes in blockbusters but also disturbingly visceral without veering into flamboyant gore. The same cannot be said of Nicolas Cage, who continues his transformation into an animatronic version of himself—a stuttering barrage of theatricality and tortured decibels. Grade: C+
Turns out uninspired sitcom gags are shitty no matter how "naturalistically" you shoot and edit them. Anna Faris is criminally underutilized. Grade: D
Tony Gilroy's corporate espionage caper has the infectious energy of Julia Roberts and Clive Owen on a romp—and unfortunately the tedium of being trapped with the stars on the transatlantic flight that's taking them there. Grade: B-
Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Album: It's Blitz!
Artist: The Knife. Album: Like a Pen.
The pilot was the late Anthony Minghella's final big-hearted valentine to the world. May the series live up to it.