eXistenZ (Dimension, R) David Cronenberg offers a typically gooey set of philosophical riddles in this virtual-reality mind bender.
LIFE (Universal, R) Comical criminals Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence go up the river and grow old together.
METROLAND (Universal, R) Middle-class angst, London style: Heartthrob Christian Bale is married to Emily Watson, but pines for his bohemian youth.
A WALK ON THE MOON (Miramax, R) Middle-class angst, Stateside: In the summer of 1969, Diane Lane's hausfrau gets drawn into the orbit of a hippie lover.
XIU XIU: THE SENT DOWN GIRL (A-Pix, R) Joan Chen's directorial debut finds a Chinese girl coming of age during Mao's Cultural Revolution.
