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In this week's roundup of the latest releases from the online magazine Slate, we'll hear what critics are saying about The Bourne Ultimatum, Becoming Jane and Bratz.

Paul Rudd, who co-starred in Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin, produced and stars in the new independent film The Ten — a series of irreverent vignettes that reinterpret the Ten Commandments for a modern audience.

The Hottest State sounds like the ultimate vanity project — it's based on director Ethan Hawke's semi-autobiographical novel — but the film turns out to be an affecting story of a young man's first love.

British documentary is disturbing, unnerving and wire-to-wire involving — the story of a dream that got so wildly out of hand that it ensnared the dreamer in an intricate trap of his own creation.

In the film Resurrecting the Champ, actor Samuel L. Jackson plays a homeless, broken-down former heavyweight contender. The movie is directed by Rob Lurie and set to open Aug. 24.

There's a groundbreaking new magazine that celebrates African style. Called "Karama Umuntu," the publication is dedicated to African hairstyles and fashion and will launch this fall in the United Kingdom. Florence Abwoyo, its creator and publisher, explains the magazine's significance.

Iconic series loses something when it's padded and ironed out to conform to Hollywood's templates; the film rarely captures the magic of the show, with its lunatic free-associations and its manic highs.

Fresh Air's resident rock historian remembers soul singer Lorraine Ellison, who recorded a handful of albums and dozens of singles in the '60s and '70s; though she charted a few R&B hits, she never quite broke through to stardom. Her biggest success was with the string-saturated ballad "Stay With Me," which topped out at No. 11 on the R&B charts and has since been covered by everyone from Bette Midler to teenybopper idol Rex Smith.

For nearly 60 years, Doris Lessing has been writing some of the most daring and important fiction in English. In her new novel, she takes a long look back over her shoulder to try to fathom the origins of human life.

Appealingly preposterous biopic purports to explain what happened during a few lost months in the life of France's answer to Shakespeare; according to this sumptuously costumed comedy, his adventures inspired his best characters and plays.