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Sensitive student Charlie Bartlett plays shrink to his classmates — in the stalls of the school's bathrooms. John Poll's comedy succeeds with a light directorial touch and pitch-perfect casting.

As the Writers Guild of America returns to work, we listen in on the first night of members' work appearing on talk shows, including excerpts from the monologues from The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and The Daily Show.

The Washington Post garnered the most Pulitzer Prizes this year with six. They included the prize for public service for reporting on the deplorable conditions for wounded servicemen and servicewomen at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

While on assignment in Afghanistan, Steve Featherstone began taking pictures of latrine walls at an airbase in Kuwait, not far from the border with Iraq. The images, he says, are a rare glimpse into the minds of U.S. soldiers.

Farai Chideya offers a remembrance of actor, director and producer Ivan Dixon, who died this week at the age of 76. Dixon was probably best known for his role as Staff Sergeant James Kinchloe on the 1960s sitcom, Hogan's Heroes.

When you think of Martha's Vineyard, you might get an image of the Kennedy family hosting a clambake. But there has also been a significant black population living there since the colonial days. A new play called Stick Fly — airing on public radio stations — takes us into the family parlor to visit with a father, two sons, and the three women in their lives. Director Shirley Jo Finney and actors Carl Lumbly and Dule Hill join Farai Chideya.

In 1960, a team of documentary filmmakers descended on the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary in order to record the campaigning between John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey. Politically, the results propelled Kennedy to the nomination. Artistically, the documentarians invented a new form.

Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha, pictured) and Acerola (Douglas Silva) are close friends before a gang war pits them against each other in City of Men.

A Romanian university student attempts to orchestrate an illegal abortion for her roommate; in the process, she encounters the seedy, even dangerous sides of a country where director Cristian Mungiu suggests self-interest drives day-to-day life.

Dramatist Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman) has been called a "stage Tarantino"; with In Bruges, his feature-film debut, he's left two Irish hit men at large in the picturesque Belgian city — and created some moments that are pretty picturesque themselves.