Jamie Foxx offers what just may be the performance of the year as singer Ray Charles in an entertaining biopic that captures the complexity of the late musical master. Regina King and Kerry Washington costar. (PG-13)
Saw
In a relentlessly gory horror film, two men (Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell) awaken to find themselves shackled to pipes in a bathroom. A sadistic serial murderer is abducting folks and then forcing his victims to kill themselves in nasty ways (seen in flashbacks). The yuck factor is way too high here. (R)
Brother to Brother
An ambitious but sketchy drama has a contemporary gay black collegian (Anthony Mackie) befriend an elderly artist who flourished during the 1920s Harlem renaissance. The older gent shows him that the more things change, the more they stay the same. (Not rated)
