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In Berlin's vibrant theater scene, Ramba Zamba stands out. The group interprets and adapts classic stories with daring costumes, modern music and no shortage of sex and violence. Most surprising are the actors: Almost all are mentally disabled.

Film critic David Edelstein presents his top ten movies of 2006, and also discusses the best of the holiday options.

Deja Vu is in the business of confounding expectations. It's not the routine potboiler starring Denzel Washington that the advertising indicates. The film makes little sense, but that hardly matters because it's some first-class genre fun.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews the new animated feature Happy Feet. As the film's domestic earnings approach $100 million, the musical has started to pop up on lists of prospective Best Picture nominees.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Casino Royale the new James Bond film starring Daniel Craig.

Actor Elliott Gould recalls time spent with director Robert Altman. They worked together on several films -- notably M*A*S*H, The Long Goodbye and California Split.

The ancients didn't use radioactive Polonium-210 to take out their enemies, but poisoning has long associated with the deaths of the powerful -- though not always through assassination. Classics commentator Elaine Fantham reminds Scott Simon of some historic poisoning cases, starting with Socrates.

The Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu won this year's directing prize at Cannes for Babel. His film 21 Grams was nominated for two Oscars and he scored an American art house hit with his first feature, Amores Perros. In Babel, he tells four interrelated stories set on three continents. The film stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, and Gael Garcia Bernal.

The Prestige matches Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as rival magicians who try to sabotage each others' tricks, and steal them when they can. It's a magical mystery tour of subterfuge, directed by brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan of Memento fame.

James Bond first appeared on the big screen 44 years ago. Up until today, the 20 James Bond features have been as predictable as the shaken-not-stirred martini preference of their protagonist. Now, with Casino Royale, the hero with a thousand smirks has been given a shrewd, and largely successful, attitude adjustment.