In its painstaking honesty, Brad Gooch'sFlannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor is both a gift and a curse to O'Connor's fans, displaying as it does the racial insensitivity and other flaws of one of America's greatest short-story writers.

This 3-D animation is an affectionate riff on 1950s sci-fi movies with some high-caliber voice-overs.

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter bares her soul in a searing, sometimes angry, beautiful performance of Brahms' Violin Concerto, recorded live and dedicated to her late husband.

A shy, stay-at-home young woman becomes the unlikely heroine of this highly entertaining historical novel.

Anxious to get her son into private school, a thirtysomething single mom (Amy Adams) starts a crime-scene cleaning service. Formulaic alterna-flavored hijinks— some surprisingly enjoyable— ensue.

First three albums took now legendary band from vacuous to visionary

Mark O'Connor's newAmericana Symphony follows the spirit of America's historic westward expansion and the music it engendered. The fiddler says he's trying to identify something long overlooked in classical music— our native language.

R.L. Stine says Sebastian Barry's novel of the Irish during World War I is so exceptional and beautifully written that it reads like music.

Sin Nombre has a first-time director, actors you've never heard of, Spanish dialogue and a story about illegal immigration. Somehow all that adds up to a surprisingly striking movie.