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Here in one place: All of Bob Mondello's short reviews of this year's nominees for the Best Picture Oscar — complete with clips from the films.

Actor Mark Wahlberg, most recently starring in We Own the Night, talks with Terry Gross about problems in his youth and how it shaped his acting career. Wahlberg's career includes starring roles in several movies as well as success as a musician and model.

After a miscommunication, an Egyptian police band finds itself lost in a small town in Israel in The Band's Visit. From the intersection of the haphazard and the awkward, a sweet human comedy emerges.

Movie-theater owner Ben Tanaka is having relationship issues; his girlfriend, Miko, suspects he's secretly attracted to white women. (She's right, but he won't admit it.) In Shortcomings, Asian-American graphic novelist Adrian Tomine (Scrapbook, Summer Blonde) has finally done what many fans and critics have suggested he should: addressed race in his work.

Comedy and romantic conflicts abound in a Beirut beauty salon in Caramel, a kind of Lebanese Steel Magnolias. The premise isn't new, but the comedy is warm, observant and generous — so Caramel feels plenty fresh.

A gender-neutral pronoun is taking root on the streets of Baltimore. Campbell Leaper, a psychology professor, traces the popularity of "yo."

Abdul Rahman was an African prince, captured and enslaved in the United States for 40 years before gaining his freedom. A new documentary airing on PBS, A Prince Among Slaves, tells his incredible story.

The announcement last month that Philippe De Montebello is retiring has led to a spate of articles describing him as the last of a breed. De Montebello has led New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for 30 years.

The Sundance Film Festival is under way in Park City, Utah. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan combs the movie lineup for the most promising offerings.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Be Kind, Rewind, starring Jack Black and Mos Def, and directed by Michel Gondry.