Reuters - No one ever envisioned Alanis Morissette penning the comfort guide to a harsh breakup, yet for electro-influenced "Flavors of Entanglement," her clear-eyed look back, inward and forward is with a poise borne of time's passing.

AP - Outlandish eyelashes. Bandanna headgear. Colorful gypsylike outfits. And oh yes, creator of those extraordinary abstract-expressionistic boxes made out of discarded wood.

AP - The movie is about a woman who hits a guy with her car and drives home with him still lodged in the windshield — then parks in the garage, closes the door and leaves him there to die.

AP - Gavin Rossdale, "Wanderlust" (Interscope)

AP - "Body Awareness," a new comedy by Annie Baker presented by the Atlantic Theater Company, has a slightly familiar look and feel to it: Two middle-aged female academics, live-in partners for the past three years, share their home in rural Shirley, Vermont, with the slightly dysfunctional young adult son of one of the women.

Reuters - As a commando-turned-hairdresser with superheroic strength and a supersized crotch, Adam Sandler gets the Israeli accent and the disco swagger just right.

AP - Ah, the panda.

AP - Steve Conrad may not have been ready for his own promotion just yet.

AP - "Master of the Delta" (Harcourt, 367 pages, $24), by Thomas H. Cook: "A man doesn't need to know everything," the genteel old Southerner tells his grown son.

AP - Giacomo Puccini, "La Boheme" (Deutsche Grammophon): With at least a dozen recordings of Puccini's "La Boheme" readily available from Amazon.com, why another?

AP - Despite its amiable demeanor, "Saved" does not offer born-again, musical-theater salvation.