Our critics' selections

Inside Job.

A riveting chronicle of the financial crash of 2008 and its continuing aftershocks, Charles Ferguson's documentary has all the twists and turns of a classic heist drama.

PG-13

Hereafter. Clint Eastwood's triptych about an American psychic, a French journalist who survives a near-death experience, and an English lad in mourning is a contemplative mood piece on death and dying that proves to be a life-affirming movie about love. PG-13

The Social Network. Director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin collaborated on this Facebook-origin story, a near-perfect whodunit starring Jesse Eisenberg as the almost affectless Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Garfield as his friend and Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin. R