Our critics' selections

Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness.

Superb documentary about creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the prototype of the Jewish comic voice who laughed to keep from crying.

No MPAA rating

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Drive. Shamelessly entertaining action thriller starring Ryan Gosling as a Man With No Name and few words. He daylights as a stuntman, moonlights as a getaway driver, and will go to any lengths to help his pretty neighbor. With Albert Brooks. R

Higher Ground. In a stunning directorial debut, actress Vera Farmiga tells the love story of a woman who embraces her evangelical faith yet wants proof of God's existence. R