Another lightweight Imax documentary that resembles a promotional video more than a movie. I went into it hoping to learn about Nascar racing, but the picture only wanted to tell me how great the sport is. Strategy, driving technique and the rules of racing are barely touched on, leaving unexplained the reason millions of people

You couldn’t imagine a more genial guy than Brian Herzlinger, whose movie documents his attempts to have dinner with longtime crush Drew Barrymore, yet the creepiness of the endeavor still lingers. He’s the kind of stalker you want to pet. That doesn’t mean you’ll want to watch My Date with Drew. Full of grainy, in-your-face

A large-format film chronicling the 2001 X Games in Philadelphia. Produced by ESPN, which also is behind the X Games, this a promotional piece as much as a documentary, but the movie offers an enthralling glimpse into the extreme-sports subculture nonetheless. As riders careen nearly 100 feet in the air and then flip over and

The late Tupac Shakur mixed a gangsta-rap image with a social activist’s conscience, swooning so wildly between the two poses you were never sure which one was the put-on. This documentary, which he “narrates” via past interviews, isn’t interested in such an identity crisis, even though that’s what made the man fascinating. Instead it’s marred

Thrill Ride botches its one interesting subject – amusement park roller coasters – before moving on to an extremely tedious examination of “ride films,” which combine motion simulation and moviemaking. Despite some predictably stimulating first-person shots, most of the technology on display is sadly dated.

Real human drama doesn’t get much more gripping than this documentary about the sport of paraplegic rugby, in which even the game’s winners must learn to live, day after day, with the agony of some sort of defeat. As it follows these young men, most of whom have ended up in wheelchairs because of car

Director Spike Lee captures the last performance of the hugely successful stand-up comedy tour featuring Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric “The Entertainer” and Bernie Mac. The usual topics – sex, race and family life – are covered in funny but not always original ways, as any look back at 1979’s Richard Pryor Live in Concert

The rare Imax documentary that places as much importance on information as it does on visual spectacle, Sharks 3D uses 3D technology to immerse us even further into the world of one of earth’s most fascinating creatures. In a kid-friendly conceit, the movie is “hosted” by a sea turtle who provides plenty of facts. Sharks

Less a portrait of the Titanic than a snapshot of those obsessed by it, this 3-D Imax documentary nevertheless offers striking new footage of the famed sunken ship. Director James Cameron returns to the subject matter that inspired his 1997 Oscar-winning picture, and he seems as enthralled with the legend as with the cameras, submarines

Like the MTV reality series it was spun off from, The Real Cancun takes a bunch of self-obsessed young adults, throws them into one house and prods them into behaving as if they were at a junior-high dance. That no one survives with a shred of dignity shouldn’t come as a surprise. These are kids