Two high school intellects — studly Richard (Ryan Gosling) and loner Justin (Michael Pitt) — commit the perfect murder to prove their superiority over mere mortals. Salton Sea screenwriter Tony Gayton (him again) and Reversal of Fortune director Barbet Schroeder clearly want to make a modern-day thriller that draws parallels to past crimes, from the Leopold and Loeb trial in 1924 to the Dartmouth killings last year. On the other hand, star Sandra Bullock, as the cop on the case (along with her partner, played by Ben Chaplin), seems to have nothing deeper in mind than doing a sappy big-screen version of TV's CSI. She wins. Is it maybe because she's also the film's executive producer?

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."