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Seeming less like a doomsday doc than a US Defense Department PSA, Lucy Walker's Countdown To Zero is an alarmist neo-nuke proliferation outcry against the persistent dangers that appear to have never gone away, of nuclear annihilation on the plane

And so begins the determined but awkward journey in 2006 of populist homeboy director Joe Winston back to those heartland roots in the documentary, What's The Matter With Kansas? Or more to the point, what's a corn-fed Middle American to do, while

Spoken Word is most dramatically eloquent in scenes where father and son struggle awkwardly and painfully to reestablish a family bond broken long ago, in the context of a different kind of raw language conceived as 'poetry not on the page.'

A far too self-serious hyperactive odyssey of a fugitive CIA operative fingered as a Russian mole, Salt boasts unearned narrative smarts that are peppered with plot points more on the order of just plain daffy.

The idea of attending one's own funeral service is either the stuff of supernatural cinema or just plain insanity, and unfortunately the folkloric devilish comedy Get Low chooses the latter.