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Capsules by Michael Sragow or Chris Kaltenbach, unless noted. Full reviews are at baltimore sun.com/movies.

Be Kind Rewind -- In this combination of Dada farce and daddy comedy, Jack Black and Mos Def carve out a cult of no-budget, handmade short films to save the small business -- and ultimately the neighborhood -- of their father figure (Danny Glover), the owner of the Be Kind Rewind video store. This movie doesn't have a mean bone in its body; the problem is, it doesn't have any bone in its body. It's a gross combination of hipness and sentimentality. (M.S.) PG-13 101 minutes C-

Definitely, Maybe -- imagines a world where happy endings are de rigueur, but getting there is no picnic. As romantic comedies go, that may not qualify as a revelation, but in the hands of writer-director Adam Brooks and his uniformly charming cast -- including Ryan Reynolds as the poor guy whose heart belongs to either Elizabeth Banks, Isla Fisher or Rachel Weisz -- it's a welcome wrinkle in a genre that rarely ventures beyond the predictable. Abigail Breslin is the young girl transfixed by her father's tale and anxious to find out which of based-on-fact girlfriends he's telling her about is her mother. (C.K.) PG-13 111 minutes B

Diary of the Dead -- A film student decides to record his and his pals' efforts to escape the undead. Too much hand-held camera and not enough of a fresh take on the whole zombie scene suggests writer-director George Romero may have gone to the zombie well once too often. (C.K.) R 95 minutes C+

Fool's Gold -- An undersea-treasure hunter and his ex-wife renew their love connection over the prospective bounty from a sunken Spanish fleet. Formulaic and cliched, but Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson have a winning chemistry. (C.K.) PG-13 110 minutes B-

4 Months, 3 Weeks, Two Days -- The exploitation of a strong woman by a needy one proves as tense a subject as the tyranny of a communist dictatorship in this engrossing story of a thoughtless college girl's illegal abortion in 1987 Romania. The movie fills us with high anxiety and terror, and Anamaria Marinca, as the pregnant girl's sturdy friend, is the rarest kind of heartbreaker. You never see her ask for the audience's sympathy. She creates a character on the run -- and allows the film to zip down intriguing side roads in a largely straightaway narrative. (M.S.) Unrated 113 minutes A