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<p><strong>Roamin' Collar:</strong> A priest (Steve Little) loses his Bible — but finds a new perspective — an a canoe trip with a former schoolmate in Todd Rohal's <em>The Catechism Cataclysm</em>.<em> </em></p>

'Catechism Cataclysm': A Man Of The Cloth, Fraying

A disenchanted priest takes a sabbatical, embarking on canoeing trip with an ex-heavy metal guitarist once engaged to his sister. They're joined by two young Asian women who call themselves Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. And then things gets weird.

<p>Paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers, including Kate Lloyd <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935541/"> </a> (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), as they're consumed one by one by a voracious alien. </p>

The Same Old 'Thing,' But Without The Thrills

A prequel to John Carpenter's cult horror classic goes back to Antarctica to dig into mysteries the 1982 film was content to leave unresolved. Critic Ian Buckwalter says the earlier film might have had the right idea.

<p>Kevin Spacey gives "a major performance, his best in a decade," as a Wall Street executive trying to do the right thing in the middle of a financial panic.</p>

'Margin Call': A Movie Occupied With Wall Street

This fiscal thriller, starring Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto and Demi Moore, is set during one day in 2008, as a group of brokers try to prevent their firm from going belly up. David Edelstein says that given the headlines, the film's timing couldn't be better. (Recommended)

<p>Elizabeth Olsen (left) plays Martha — or is she Marcy? May or Marlene? — a strained and strange young woman who has fled a cult's rural commune to take refuge with her sister (Sarah Paulson).</p>

'Martha Marcy': By Any Name, A Sweet Debut

Elizabeth Olsen is spellbindingly mercurial as a paranoid young woman struggling to reconnect with her family after leaving an abusive cult. (Recommended)

Comic Conventions Not Just For Nerds

People from across the country are gathering at the 2011 New York Comic Con to share their love of comics, anime, games, graphic novels and more. Michel Martin gets the dish on this year's event from Latoya Peterson, editor of the blog Racialicious.com and an anime fan who's attending the convention.

<p><strong>Constant 'Garden'-er:</strong> A diligent mom (Julia Roberts, with Cayden Boyd) struggles to hold together a family dominated by an overbearing father and rocked over the years by conflict and tragedy.</p>

'Fireflies In The Garden': It's No Party, This Swarm

A full-on family brawl is the kind of fodder that makes for a good time at the movies, at least when all the elements are in place. Critic Ella Taylor reports that despite its A-list cast, Dennis Lee's high-octane melodrama doesn't quite catch fire.

Culturetopia: Attacking Everything Edition

This week: Uruguay's choral music, a Martin Luther King, Jr. misquote, and a huge box office haul.

Poetic Propositions: Verse And The Art of Seduction

Valentine's Day is a tricky occasion for poets. Granted, it's hard not to be happy about a holiday on which poems are thought to be genuinely useful. But love poetry's record as an aphrodisiac is mixed. Critic David Orr offers advice for romantic rhymers.

<strong>'My Woman-Interpreter':</strong> Stephane (Gilles Lellouche) knows the markets, but turns to his lively housekeeper, France (Karin Viard), for perspective on dating — and raising his son.

'My Piece Of The Pie,' Served With A Bit Of Sauce

Money talks, and a chatty displaced worker talks back, in a French comic drama that details the clash of capital and labor — and dares to flirt with romance across the front lines.

At the heart of <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/10/18/141417506/to-hell-and-back-with-a-marine-and-his-wife">Hell and Back Again</a> is 26-year-old Sgt. Nathan Harris (left). The documentary film — which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival — shows a wounded Harris' struggles with combat stress and addictive opiates after his return to the U.S.

Flicks, Picked (Redux): Edelstein's 2011 Top 10 Films

From a white-knuckle Wall Street chronicle to a modernized Shakespearean war story, the films on David Edelstein's best-of-the-year list tell solid stories new and old.

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