The Sunday Drive: 3/20/11

3. The Adjustment Bureau
Exercise your free will and catch up with Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in The Adjustment Bureau, based on Philip K. Dick's short story about a man fighting against fate to be with the woman he loves.  
2. Jane Eyre
What could've been another stagnant adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic romance novel is given new life by director Cary Fukunaga(Sin Nombre). Mia Wasikowska(Alice in Wonderland) is the fiery feminist heroine, while a sizzling Michael Fassbender(Fish Tank) is the man she loves.

1.  The Lincoln Lawyer
Apologies to those hoping Matthew McConaughey's latest would be another shirtless diversion. The Lincoln Lawyer puts the once formidable actor back in the perfectly tailored suit of a slick defense attorney, navigating the legal nooks of Los Angeles in his Lincoln Town Car. A thrilling, hard-hitting mystery and a reminder of just how good McConaughey can be.

DVD Pick of the Week: The Switch
It'd be easy to go with The Fighter this week, so let's take a different approach on a movie most people probably avoided like the plague. Not that I blame anyone for skipping out on The Switch. The ad campaign did it no favors, presenting it as a poor man's version of The Back-Up Plan. Jennifer Aniston is Kassie, woman who desperately wants to have a kid, so she opts for the insemination route, even over the objections of her best friend, Wally(Jason Bateman). Through some brain-bending coincidence, the sperm gets switched with that of Wally's. If you're thinking this is where it suddenly turns into a bad NBC sitcom, you're wrong. Wally and Kassie fight, and don't speak for seven years. When they reunite, she still has no idea who the real father is, and Wally is suddenly getting very close with her neurotic kid. Like father, like son. A more heartfelt comedy than it has any right to be, give The Switch a chance I doubt you'll be disappointed.