Angel Eyes, a romantic thriller of more than usual ineptitude, asks the question: Is Jennifer Lopez reason enough to see any movie she's in? Well, not exactly. Aside from Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight, Lopez has mostly been trapped in garbage, be it pop (Anaconda) or pretentious (The Cell). But J.Lo has something the camera loves: an emotional directness that can cut through slick muck such as The Wedding Planner. Here, Lopez plays Sharon Pogue, a hard-nosed Chicago cop who takes up with Catch (bug-eyed Jim Caviezel of The Thin Red Line), a mystery man who comes to her rescue. There's more than a sexual link between the two, but why spoil one of the few surprises in the script by Gerald DiPego. Despite evocative cinematography from Polish master Piotr Sobocinski (Krzysztof Kieslowski's Red), who died in March at forty-three, Mexican director Luis Mandoki (Message in a Bottle) lets another film drown in the tear-jerker tide.

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.