August

Anyone who thinks that Josh Hartnett isn't a true movie star should see his riveting, high-wire performance in August, a shrewdly dramatized look back at the bursting of the dot-com bubble.

Smartly scripted, convincingly atmospheric morality fable in which Hartnett, usually insubstantial as a good guy, plays a convincingly flawed character galloping toward the precipice.

Only an amusing cameo by David Bowie enlivens things, but he's onscreen for just about two minutes at the end.

This one has nothing extraordinary about it to compensate for seven years' staleness.