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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire opens Friday. Critic Kenneth Turan says that new director Mike Newell and his cast have finally done justice to J.K. Rowling's work.

Writer Mark Jordan Legan rounds up what movie critics are saying about this weekend's releases, namely The Producers, King Kong and The Family Stone.

Robert Siegel talks to writer Walter Isaacson about the legacy of Nelson Mandela and what makes a "great man" (with a nod to Thomas Carlyle's "great man theory" of the 19th century). Isaacson has written biographies of other great historical figures, including Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin. He says history is made by individuals and Mandela was a person who changed the course of history.

More than 30 holiday movies will open between now and the end of the year -- many of them Oscar hopefuls. Bob Mondello has a selective preview.

Two documentaries about nature's pristine complexity are out now on DVD The March of the Penguins and Grizzly Man.

In his new documentary On the Frontlines of AIDS, filmmaker Sorious Samura chronicles his experience working as an orderly at a hospital in Zambia. Television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews the film, which airs Monday on the Discovery Times Channel.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson reviews the new television commercial for the Ford Focus. It features iPods prominently, although the car itself offers no integrated support for the devices.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan offers a roundup of what movie critics are saying about the weekend's major new film releases: Last Holiday, Hoodwinked and Glory Road.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt taught school for 30 years. Relationships formed with 12,000 mostly teenaged students form the basis of a new memoir, Teacher Man. He tells Jacki Lyden about life in the classroom.

Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon is a singer-songwriter with a lilting, folk-rock style. His band's new releasw, Tiny Cities, covers the songs of another, very different singer-songwriter: Isaac Brock, of the alternative rock band Modest Mouse.