Ray (2004)

The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.

The movie has great acting and good production value, but the story is as if the director was dutifully ticking off the major points in Ray Charles' life without giving you any further insight into what kind of person he really was or what his music was all about.

Sniper 2 (2002)

A former Marine sniper is lured back in on a top-secret mission to take out a rogue general who is committing atrocities on the Muslim population.

Above-average actioner is professionally staged with a suspense and a fairly well-considered script.

In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)

A Philadelphia police officer struggles with a lifelong obsession to track down a mysterious serial killer whose crimes defy explanation.

Nicely staged sci-fi crime drama is at first interesting, but has one main problem: it's yet again another time-travel story beyond any plausibility.

Little Murder (2011)

In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer.

Nicely set crime drama that unfortunately turns into an implausible, but predictable and cliched ghost story.