Critiqal

Plot: Ben (Bradford) has a pretty good life. He’s got a wonderful girlfriend, Amy (Appleby); he’s got a chance to to impress some Stanford scouts in an upcoming swim meet and he even works after school in a hospital as an orderly. But a brief encounter with a new girl at school, Madison (Christensen), is about to change all that…forever.

Plot: New York City police detective John Shaft (Jackson) goes to investigate a racially-motivated murder. A waitress at the nightclub points out Wade (Bale), the son of a powerful real estate tycoon. After being freed on bail, Wade skips town for years. Now he’s back, and Shaft is looking for justice.