Jackass 3-D grossed a whopping $50 million in its debut weekend, setting several records and setting punditry tongues wagging in the process.

Darkness on the Edge of Town is a record of American reckoning, an accounting of the steep, dreadful costs of unconsciousness and the fulsome, liberating rewards of opening our eyes.

Cindy Kleine's film has captured something quietly but essentially tragic about many American women who were born in the 1920s and 30s.

A cruel irony lies at the heart of Mai Iskander's debut film Garbage Dreams, which follows three teenage boys growing up in the filth-strewn allies of Mokattam, Cairo's garbage village.

Viewers see for themselves how the war drags on long after "peace" was declared.

The winner of the Audience Award for Best US Documentary was Waiting for Superman, a no-hold-your-punches investigation of our failing public schools.

By subtitling entire mixtape verses -- DJ drops sometimes included -- the New Orleans lyricist Lil Wayne is put on a pedestal that was once reserved only for Bob Dylan and John Lennon. And why not?