Reuters - Throwing inconvenient truths out the window, Lifetime's new biopic of haute designer Coco Chanel is a delicious extravagance, a telefilm sometimes rapturous in the way it looks and feels.

AP - If director Todd Solondz were to bring a Judy Blume book to the screen, "Towelhead" would be the result.

AP - "We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever" (Weinstein Books, 261 pages, $24.95), by Benjamin Mee: We may have studied animals, we may love animals. We may hate zoos, we may love them. But who can actually claim to own one?

AP - It's a total goof, of course. A lark, a one-off.

Reuters - Oh boy. Another excruciating quasi-sports/game show travesty brought to us by network television.

Reuters - This summer, two mediocre female-centered movies -- "Sex and the City" and "Mamma Mia!" -- drew huge crowds because they appealed to an underserved audience.

Reuters - Paul Schrader's "Adam Resurrected" doesn't lack for ambition.

AP - Will Wright is one of just a handful of celebrities in the world of computer game design. Like his contemporaries Shigeru Miyamoto (the Mario series) and Sid Meier ("Civilization"), he has a level of prestige similar to, say, Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese in Hollywood.

AP - Somehow, Diane English has managed to make the "Sex and the City" movie look like a documentary.

AP - There is much to admire in the operatic version of "The Fly."

Reuters - In a sea of serious festival films, "Ghost Town" stands out like a beckoning beacon of welcome frivolity.

Reuters - Spike Lee has so much on his plate in "Miracle at St. Anna" that it's little wonder everything goes flying.