*ADVENTURELAND (dir: Greg Mottola, R) – Here’s an early contender for 2009’s best movie. Totally unexpected, inaccurately marketed and deeply heartfelt, this funny, touching and sentimental film is full of small pleasures. Recent college grad James gets stuck at home in Pittsburgh for the summer after his parents cancel his European vacation. He sucks it up and gets a job at a low-rent theme park and meets a colorful group of misfits. Don’t be fooled by the shallow, crass marketing that makes this look like a stupid comedy for slug-brained teenagers.

ANGRY MONK: REFLECTIONS ON TIBET (dir: Luc Schaedler, Not Rated) – Who says monks have to be mellow and full of good vibes? Take Gendun Choephel, a legendary dude from Tibet who is not very happy with China and is not afraid to say so.

BORN IN 68 (dir: Olivier Ducastel / Jacques Martineau, Unrated) – The repercussions of late 60s France are explored in this celebrated drama that follows the offspring of that liberated generation as they navigate the late 80s.

THE FISH FALL IN LOVE (dir: Ali Raffi, Not Rated) – Here’s a twofer for you. It’s a charming Iranian movie and a food movie!

THE INFORMERS (dir: Gregor Jordan, R) – In a cracking adaptation that really nails the spirit of Bret Easton Ellis and his writing, the young people are beautiful, vacuous and rich. The parents are inattentive and self involved. The sociopaths that circle slowly around these people often look like Mickey Rourke. Oh, that is Mickey Rourke. Look, most of you guys will hate this. But fans of THE RULES OF ATTRACTION, LESS THAN ZERO and AMERICAN PSYCHO will also be disappointed. I don’t know, I really liked it. But I can’t be objective on this one. I think Bret Easton Ellis is the greatest living American writer. He’s better than most of the dead ones too.

^NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS (dir: Joe Swanberg / Greta Gerwig, Not Rated) – Oh, great. More boring mumblecore. This time it’s about a young couple, living in separate cities who are sad they don’t get to spend enough time together. Yawnsville.

SUNSHINE CLEANING (dir: Christine Jeffs, R) – Likeable actor people Amy Adams and Emily Blunt star as sisters strapped for cash who find work cleaning up crime scenes. This may sound a bit too LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE-ey, down to the Alan Arkin appearance, but is thankfully a bit rougher around the edges.

TYSON (dir: James Toback, R) – If people want to jabber on about how the media distorts everything with some hidden agenda, let’s look at the strange case of Mike Tyson. Never once until watching this fascinating, emotional and utterly human documentary had I ever seen Mike Tyson represented as anything but a wild animal with a lisp. As it turns out, dude has always been an articulate and sensitive class act. And Evander Holyfield was totally head-butting him before he bit his ear off. As for Miss Black Rhode Island and Robyn Givens, can you say GOLD DIGGERS?