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Film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the film Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift. He says the movie is unintentionally amusing but enjoyable.

Graffiti -- New York's most famous symbol of urban anxiety -- no longer grows like ivy on the subway trains. Still, it's lodged deeply in the city's psyche. And through Sept. 3, it's firmly ensconced in the Brooklyn Museum, in an exhibition simply called, "Graffiti."

A simple farmer turned general, then dictator of Rome, Cincinnatus was revered for his humility. As legend has it, he gave up all that power to return home. Classics scholar Elaine Fantham discusses the Roman hero with Scott Simon.

Hollywoodland is an ambitious film that succeeds up to a point, but no further. It's a reasonable facsimile of film noir, but it's also an overly derivative piece of work that thinks it is doing and saying more than it is. And this despite a subtle and effective performance by, of all people, Ben Affleck.

Factotum is a delicate melding of a trio of different sensibilities you wouldn't think would naturally cohere. It gracefully combines the bleak world of the despairing poet and novelist Charles Bukowski with the droll point of view of Norwegian director Bent Hamer.

In the new movie The Night Listener, Robin Williams plays a radio personality who starts to believe he's being scammed. The drama revolves around a radio show that is based on a memoir; the film itself is based on Armistead Maupin's novel -- which in turn was based on a real event.

Michael Mann's movie re-make of his classic 80s TV show Miami Vice is visually stunning. But its poor plot leaves the viewer wanting more. Morning Edition and Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan says its a "B" picture with an "A" picture budget.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is from the same pit crew that brought us Anchorman. Dutifully, Talladega Nights does for NASCAR what the earlier movie did for journalism.

Writer-director Kevin Smith returns with a sequel to the indie flick Clerks, the movie that put him on the map. Clerks II once again brings Dante, Randall, and even Jay and Silent Bob, to the big screen. Steve Inskeep talks with Smith about his characters and his career.

In the new film Little Miss Sunshine, Toni Collette, Steve Carrell, and Greg Kinnear form the nucleus of a hilariously dysfunctional family. NPR's Bob Mondello says family values have rarely been so easy to endorse in a comedy -- but it's definitely not for the kiddies.