Chris Rock's last outing as a director was 2007's I Think I Love my Wife, an occasionally funny but generally misguided remake of a film by French director Eric Rohmer. With his latest film Rock gets the closest he has ever come to transferring the in-your-face style of his stand-up comedy to the big screen. It's an introspective-artist comedy in the vein of Woody Allen's Stardust Memories and Judd Apatow's Funny PeopleRock plays André Allen, a comedian who has made millions playing a character in a bear suit called Hammy, the star of a woeful action franchise, whose tagline is "It's Hammy time!"He is in New York to promote his latest film, Uprize, a heavy-handed story of a slave uprising in Haiti.As part of the promotion he agrees to allow a New York Times cultural journalist, Chelsea Brown (Rosario Dawson), to spend the day with him as he goes from one radio station to another and tries to deal with the demands of his fiancée, Erica (Gabrielle Union), whom he is about to marry on an episode of her reality TV series.Andre is a recovering alcoholic and so is Chelsea. You can guess where things are going.Rock might have too many things he wants to say and aims at too many targets but the easy, smart and funny energy that pervades most of the film manages to carry it above its shortcomings, making it his most successful and fully realised big-screen project to date.Also openingRosewaterThe ordeal of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari is brought to the screen with impressive tact and intelligence by comedian Jon Stewart. - Scott Foundas, variety.comThe boy next doorNo affair goes unpunished in Hollywood. The latest proof is this J.Lo-starring, gender reversing B-movie spin on 'Fatal Attraction'. - Sheri Linden, hollywoodreporter.comDanny CollinsAl Pacino injects adrenaline into the title role of a dissolute pop star belatedly seeking redemption. - Stephen Holden, nytimes.com..