Weekend Movie Forecast: The Cove or Funny People

Previously known as Winged Creatures, the renamed movie Fragments stars Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Forest Whitaker, and Josh Hutcherson as people whose lives change dramatically after they survive a shooting spree in a LA diner. The Village Voice's Ed Gonzalez brings the hammer down: "Such is the level of nuance and texture on display here that Kate Beckinsale's peroxide blonde is meant to be understood as trash because she chews gum like a cow in heat, but at least the title of Rowan Woods's misshapen and overreaching melodrama is apt, cobbled as it is from anxiously undigested allusions to war and birds and grief. Hard to say what is more inexplicable—why Guy Pearce's hot doc poisons his wife or how urine became a plot clincher. But this much is clear: The hell that Paul Haggis hath wrought grows exponentially by the day."