A Parisian shaves off the mustache he has worn his entire adult life to see what reaction he gets - then fears he's the victim of a cruel conspiracy when neither his wife nor friends notice the difference. English, French and Cantonese with subtitles.

Elisha Cuthbert stars as a popular high school student whose social life takes a turn for the worse with the arrival of an adopted, and deaf, sister (Camilla Belle) and the uncovering of dark family secrets.

) Desperate for money to ease his family's financial burden, young Sebastien blindly follows instructions intended for a dead drug addict, thinking his persistence will be rewarded. French with subtitles.

In this remake of the 1973 horror film, Nicolas Cage stars as a sheriff who discovers something disturbing about the disappearance of a young girl from a small island where the inhabitants take part in pagan rituals.

Reviewed by critics Carrie Rickey (C.R.), Tirdad Derakhshani (T.D.), David Hiltbrand (D.H.) and Steven Rea (S.R.). W.S. denotes a wire-service review.

Jean-Pierre Melville's taut 1969 study of the French Resistance movement during World War II - and a small band of men (and a few women) who fought the Nazi occupation - is nothing short of a masterpiece. 2 hrs. 25 (violence, profanity, adult themes) - S.R.

The legendary singer-songwriter is profiled in this wonderful documentary and concert film that shows just how timeless his music, and words, are. 1 hr. 38 (some sex-related material) - S.R.

Master filmmaker André Téchiné's exquisitely filmed story about unrequited love is a brilliant extended meditation on our faith in love's power to redeem us. It follows French engineer Antoine (Gérard Depardieu), who has spent 30 lonely years pining for his only love, Cécile (Catherine Deneuve), showing up in Tangiers, where she lives with her husband, to claim her. 1 hr. 38 (adult themes, sexuality, nudity) - T.D.

Edward Norton stars as a master magician in late-19th-century Vienna whose sublime trickery gets him in trouble with a dastardly royal. A wonderful anachronism of a movie, with its clip-clopping horses, gaslit lanterns, and Hollywood stars (Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel) elocuting in quasi-Euro accents. 1 hr. 49 (violence, adult themes) - S.R.

Equipped with strategic energy reserves and a PowerPoint presentation, Al Gore discusses the perils of global warming in this engaging and challenging documentary from Davis Guggenheim. 1 hr. 40 (suitable for those 10 and older) - C.R.

Easily one of the best computer-animated features to come out of Hollywood in a while, this creepy-crawly, freak-show yarn is also one of the weirdest. Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg oversaw the project, about a house that swallows passersby and the three young friends who try to do something about it. With the voices of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Turner and others. 1 hr. 31 (scares, adult language, themes) - S.R.

If you mess with Supey, you'd better mess right, and director Bryan Singer has messed right: a spectacularly satisfying reworking of the superhero legend, with cool special effects and a surprising twist on the Lois Lane-Superman romance. Kevin Spacey is arch-nemesis Lex Luthor, with Kate Bosworth as Lois. 2 hr. 34 (violence, mayhem, adult themes) - S.R.

A must-see documentary that uses footage recorded by three New Hampshire National Guardsmen during their yearlong stint in Iraq. The results are bracing, troubling, illuminating. 1 hr. 36 (violence, profanity, carnage of war, adult themes) - S.R.

Anguished and heartfelt, Oliver Stone's film about real-life Port Authority officers trapped in the rubble on 9/11 is a hushed prayer of deliverance - for the officers, for their wives and families, and for the nation. 2 hrs. 9 (intense sequences of devastation and grief) - C.R.

Sad-sack Americans take on Germans in a drinking competition in this dismally flat comedy. You'd have to be very drunk indeed to find this funny. 1 hr. 50 (crude humor, nudity, profanity, excessive drinking) - D.H.

Young Luke Benward is perfectly cast as the bullied new-kid-in-school whose courage gradually changes the balance of power between him and the class bully in director Bob Dolman's tasty family film. 1 hr. 24 (bullying, crude humor) - W.S.

Set in Prohibition-era Georgia, the film boasts yesterday's style, today's music and the Harlem Renaissance's romanticism. Conceived for and starring the hip-hop duo Outkast, Bryan Barber's musical fantasia plays like Moulin Rouge - or should we say Moulin Noir? 1 hr. 30 (sex, violence, profanity) - C.R.

Improbable-but-true story of Vince Papale, the 30-year-old substitute teacher turned part-time bartender turned Philadelphia Eagle. An uplift-the-neighborhood, stand-up-and-cheer, go-Eagles inspirational about the little energizer that could. With Mark Wahlberg as Papale and Greg Kinnear as Dick Vermeil. 1 hr. 39 (language) - C.R.

Samuel L. Jackson is an FBI agent trying to help the panicked passengers on a 747 crawling with venomous snakes. Despite all the Internet hype, a rather drab disaster film. 1 hr. 45 (graphic violence, nudity, profanity) - D.H.

Will Ferrell stars as a NASCAR hero in this gloriously knuckleheaded spoof of Southern-fried stock-car culture, and the fame, glory and product endorsements that go with it. Sacha Baron Cohen practically steals the show as Ricky Bobby's speedway rival, an erudite Frenchie whose car is sponsored by, yes, Perrier. 1 hr. 50 (profanity, comic mayhem, adult themes) - S.R.

(Aboveground) A veteran of the Gulf War attempts to liberate the U.S. naval base in Cuba. Opens Thursday at Walnut Street Theatre's Studio Five, 825 Walnut St.

(Brat) A troubled cheerleader is on the run from her hick past. Previews Wednesday, opens Friday at Northern Liberties Design Center, 919 N. Fifth St.

(Gas & Electric) Questions about race, desire, history, identity and culture swirl in a haunted plantation home. Previews today and Tuesday, opens Wednesday, 7 p.m. at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St.

(Academy of Music) The story of a lion cub swept into the circle of life is beautiful to see on its national tour but needs originating director Julie Taymor's intervention to solve glitches. Through Sept. 10. - H.S.

(Hedgerow) A funny, energetic production of an English farce involving a British M.P., a sex scandal, and a corpse on a windowsill. Lots of entertaining door- and window-slamming. Through Sept. 10. - T.Z.

Gimmickless and great, Nicole Holofcener's portrait of four L.A. friends - Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand - is funny, sad, and full of trenchant observations about life, loneliness, marriage and materialism. As the unwed, unsuccessful one, Aniston shines. 1 hr. 28 (profanity, adult themes) - S.R.

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