Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains: Director Jonathan Demme follows the former president on the tour for his controversial book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The film suffers from a feeling of sameness, but it's an intriguing historical document, full of affectingly candid moments.
-KIMBERLEY JONES
The Kite Runner: The screen version of Khaled Hosseini's bestseller about friendship, betrayal and redemption, set against the turmoil in Afghanistan during the last 30 years, is faithful to the novel to a fault. The narrative detail bogs down the storyline about a haunted Afghan-American man blessed with the chance to rectify a wrong he committed years ago.
-STEVE DAVIS
