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Dawn of the Dead

DIRECTOR: Zack Snyder

CAST: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly, Lindy Booth

SYNOPSIS: Remake of George Romero's 1978 zombie classic, in which a contagious virus suddenly engulfs the world, turning people into zombie killers and resurrecting their victims to be the same.

WHAT WE SAID: St. Petersburg Times film critic Steve Persall gave this one a B-plus, writing: "Leaner, meaner and grossly funnier than its inspiration, the new and, yes, improved Dawn of the Dead should thrill horror fans. Like last year's remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this movie zeros in on what made the original fun, not "important' in an outdated era."

MPAA RATING: R; graphic violence, harsh profanity, brief sexuality

RUNNING TIME: 100 min.

DIRECTOR: Keenen Ivory Wayans

CAST: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, John Heard, Jaime King, Faune A. Chambers, Rochelle Aytes

SYNOPSIS: Marlon and Shawn Wayans play Marcus and Kevin Copeland, black FBI agents who pose as white debutantes. Hilarity, in the form of crotch-grabbing jokes, bathroom humor and flatulence gags, ensues.

WHAT WE SAID: The Times didn't review this film.

MPAA RATING: PG-13; crude and sexual humor, language, some drug content

RUNNING TIME: 105 min.

DIRECTORS: Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk

CAST: Peter Dut and Santino Chuor

SYNOPSIS: Documentary about two Sudanese refugees, boys orphaned by the civil war there, traveling from Sudan to Houston as they search for a better life.

WHAT WE SAID: The Times didn't review this film.

MPAA RATING: Not rated

RUNNING TIME: 90 min.

DIRECTOR: Louis Schwartzberg

SYNOPSIS: A documentary collection of stories about everyday and not so everyday Americans, some of whom are genuinely inspirational: a blind mountain climber, a cerebral palsy patient rolling through the Boston Marathon in a wheelchair, and Olympic boxer Michael Bennett overcoming seven years in prison for armed robbery.

WHAT WE SAID: Persall said the Disney film, released after the company refused to take on the controversial Fahrenheit 911, "has its heart in the right place but little soul; it's a coffee table book with barely moving pictures from sea to a not-so-shining (grade) C."

MPAA RATING: G

RUNNING TIME: 84 min.