Vin Diesel and Paul Walker star in this action film about urban street racing. Brian (Walker) is a Los Angeles policeman who goes undercover to investigate a series of truck hijackings. The police suspect that street racers are responsible for the hijackings and assign Brian to infiltrate a gang of them headed up by Dominic (Diesel). Soon Brian finds himself in a world where people eat, sleep, and breathe transforming ordinary Japanese cars into high-performance vehicles and drag racing them on the streets. Along the way Brian starts to fall for Dominic’s sister (Jordana Brewster), and he also meets a feisty female gang member (Michelle Rodriguez). All this leads to some exciting action sequences, and the film is generally visually arresting, featuring some great shots of customized cars and auto parts.

This lowbrow comedy is a sequel to "American Pie," and all of the major cast members from the earlier film are back. This time around, Jim (Jason Biggs) and his buddies have just finished their first year of college, and for the summer the sex-obsessed guys rent a lakeside house, where they are joined by the lecherous Stifler (Seann William Scott). Jim still suffers from performance anxiety, but he gets some help from band geek Michelle (Alyson Hannigan). Also, when Jim applies to his body what he believes to be a lubricant that turns out to be glue, he has to be taken to the hospital by his father (Eugene Levy). And there are other funny sequences as well, including one where three of the guys watch two scantily clad babes kiss and caress each other, but the gals make the guys pay a price for their voyeurism.

Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Kline, Phoebe Cates, Parker Posey, John C. Reilly, and Jennifer Beals are among those making up the fine ensemble cast of "The Anniversary Party," a drama centering around the wedding anniversary of a writer and his actress wife. Even though Joe and Sally Therrian (Cumming and Leigh) have spent most of the previous year apart, they invite several friends, mostly Hollywood types, over to celebrate their sixth anniversary. Joe is involved in making a film whose female lead is based on Sally, but he thinks Sally is too old for the role and has cast Skye Davidson (Paltrow), who is a guest at the party. As the long night wears on, the party-goers indulge in the drug ecstasy, and some painful truths are revealed.

In 1994 Ang Lee directed a much-loved little film titled "Eat Drink Man Woman" about a Chinese chef and his three daughters. "Tortilla Soup" is a remake of that earlier movie where the Chinese family has been transformed into a Mexican-American family. Martin Naranjo (Hector Elizondo) is a widower whose three unmarried adult daughters still live at home with him. The eldest daughter (Elizabeth Pena) is a spinster schoolteacher, the middle daughter (Jacqueline Obradors) a successful career woman, and the youngest (Tamara Mello) is of college age. But as Martin whips up some great-looking Mexican food for them all to share, each of the three daughters and Martin himself find someone to pair off with. On the Rotten Tomatoes Web site, "Tortilla Soup" got three positive reviews for every negative one.

Tom Tykwer’s "Run Lola Run" starring Franka Potente drew a lot of attention, and "The Princess and the Warrior" is another German-language art house drama from that writer-director featuring the same leading actress. Sissi (Potente) is a nurse at a mental hospital who is badly injured in an accident inadvertently caused by bank robber Bodo (Benno Furmann). While Sissi is still conscious, Bodo manages to save her life. Then she passes out, and when she regains consciousness, he has vanished. Later, Sissi recovers and tracks Bodo down, but he rebuffs her. However, the lives of Sissi and Bodo seem fated to be intertwined, and this leads to a remarkable series of events. What sets this film apart is Tykwer’s talent for telling his story and revealing his characters in unexpected ways.