There are times you should just keep on ignoring the elephant in the room.

How do we react to the presence of evil and injustice when, as an adult or a child, it intrudes on our world?

Matthew McConaughey stars in “The Lincoln Lawyer” as an attorney who drives around Los Angeles ... in a Lincoln. It has nothing to do with the capital of Nebraska or the former president. While you're watching it, though, you'll wish it did.

Malaysian director Chiu Keng Guan's (周青元) second feature film, “Great Day” (天天好天) is a comedy about two uncles living in a retirement home in the middle of a paddy field.

Paul Giamatti doesn't spring right to mind as the guy to play the title character of Mordecai Richler's sardonically funny and bitterly sad novel “Barney's Version.”

Those concerned that a 2 1/2 hour movie titled “Biutiful” might bear some of the attributes typically characterized as “pretentious” will not be reassured by the opening, whispered dialogue, with the camera trained only on two sets of intertwined hands, and the subsequent scene in which an unknown figure informs that when owls die, “they spit hairballs out of their beaks.”

Bradley Cooper shows he can truly act, truly command a screen — and not just swagger and preen and flash that sexy smile — in “Limitless,” and his performance goes a long way toward making this sci-fi thriller more entertaining, and more plausible, than it probably should be.

There's been no shortage of film versions of “Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Bronte's classic tale of romance and woe.

An historical epic set in China's tumultuous Spring and Autumn Period (770 – 476 B.C.), “Sacrifice” (趙氏孤兒) is adapted from the Yuan dynasty opera, “Orphan of Zhao” (趙氏孤兒), a tragedy of Grecian proportions, though director Chen Kaige's (陳凱歌) film adaptation is only tragic in the worst sense of the word.

An action-comedy set in 1920s China, “Let the Bullets Fly” (讓子彈飛) is a thinly-veiled attack on the corruption of local governments and an allegory of contemporary Chinese politics.