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A would-be-wistful dramedy, with Morgan Freeman as a kind of village elder perched at an Oregon coffee shop, advising clueless locals on life and love. Director Robert Benton made Kramer Vs. Kramer, and ought to know better.

With 30-odd Beatles songs, Frida director Julie Taymor tells a story about a guy named Jude, a girl named Lucy, and the helter-skelter '60s. Magical mystery tour, anyone?

Graceful, smart and unselfconsciously literate, Robin Swicord's screen adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler's chick-lit novel traffics in satisfying parallels and comforting symmetries.

Hanging art on hospital walls improves the sterile atmosphere. At least that's what people say. But Grayson Perry, the Times of London art critic, recently wrote an essay criticizing the practice. Perry says that art should challenge, not comfort — even in hospitals.

Three battling brothers — who haven't spoken in the year since their father's funeral — flail and rail and bond on a trek across India in the latest comic oddity from Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Royal Tennenbaums).

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — hot off an Emmy win Sunday night — is a fake-news show that often pretends to have reporters stationed in some of the world's hottest spots. That's why many viewers did a double-take when the show sent three staffers to report from Iraq last month.

After a long summer of anticipation and reruns, the fall TV season has finally arrived. Critics offer a preview of what's ahead: several new dramas about wealth, sex and apathy; a documentary series from Ken Burns; a handful of new reality shows; and sitcoms about amnesia and local TV news.

When Ken Burns set his sights on World War II, he found a far different conflict than the "good war" we've come to know. His new PBS documentary, The War, tells the stories of young soldiers who are now dying off by the thousands.

Fresh Air's film critic reviews the new Sean Penn film, adapted from the best-selling nonfiction narrative by Jon Krakauer.

Fresh Air's TV critic previews The War, the new documentary series about World War II from filmmaker Ken Burns (The Civil War). It premieres Sept. 23 on PBS.