One-Liners

DOWNLOADED (B-minus) - A by-the-numbers documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and epic fall of Napster, the file-sharing service that shook the music industry to its foundation at the turn of the millennium. Actor-director Alex Winter (Keanu's "Bill & Ted" co-star) never develops much drama and fails to dig far below the surface of the Internet sensation from what seems like a lifetime ago.

Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker seem to have survived OK (Parker, especially, now with Spotify), so there's no mystery involved here. Winter gathers extensive clips, mostly from around 2002, when Metallica's team of lawyers lowered the boom on the young men's startup that allowed millions to swap music files for free, catching the big labels off guard. As we know, Sony and Apple, etal., eventually commodified digital music, and artists seem to be no better off.

Talking heads chime in, predictably, with the main figures joined by the likes of Mike D, Noel Gallagher, Henry Rollins and Sire Records' Seymour Stein providing the industry perspective. It's a fun nostalgia trip, but it sags under a running time of 106 minutes.

CLIP (D) - This Serbian film plays like a horrific unintentional sequel to our recently viewed "It Felt Like Love," taking a teen girl's story over the edge into the realm of the tawdry. It is almost shockingly explicit, and it suffers from the downscale conceit of cellphone selfie footage throughout. Teenagers are just not that interesting, even when they are going down on each other.

The movie meanders and never establishes 16-year-old Jasna as a real person. Her dad is dying, and she's acting out with her coke-addled friends, ending up with a young man who likes to degrade her and film the proceedings with his phone. It's kids behaving badly, and there's no real point to it. It's mindless trash, not even worth zipping around with the remote to gawk or mope at the zipless sex.

WATERMARK (B) - This tone poem from Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky, who last dazzled with "Manufactured Landscapes," explores the ways in which the world's water shapes our lives. It should be viewed on a large screen, and certainly not a tablet; I watched it on a 32-inch screen and often was mesmerized by the lovely, leisurely images of rivers and dams and aquifers ... and the details of the lives of people all over the world.

The massive scale of the project is hard to comprehend at times during this 92-minute run. It's the visuals that sell this, including many landscape shots taken from the air.  (A smooth bird's-eye view of a water shed in British Columbia is breathtaking.) Time-lapse photography shows coastlines disappearing in flood conditions.

We see how water impacts the economy on various continents, such as the runoff from a leather factory in Bangladesh, and its importance to various cultures, such as the ritual cleansing in the Ganges. Wonders include massive dams in China and the Bellagio fountain show in Las Vegas.

It is thoughtful, beautiful and both comforting and disconcerting.