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" Hitting theaters this month, Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo become rouge record producers, Susan Sarandon and Melissa McCarthy reprise &amp;#039;Thelma and Louise&amp;#039;, and Steve James brings us the story of America&amp;#039;s greatest film critic. Pause Netflix\u2014you won&amp;#039;t want to miss these blockbusters. Final Curtain: Life Itself  Photo: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures, photo credit: Kevin Horan When the passionate film critic Roger Ebert gave the okay to the great documentary filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie, At the Death House Door), it was a cinematic marriage made in heaven. Besides granting James free rein to dog Ebert&amp;#039;s every step so he could make Life Itself, Ebert and his beloved wife, Chaz, gave him the gift of being able to capture the extended trajectory of Ebert&amp;#039;s death. You&amp;#039;ll laugh, you&amp;#039;ll cry, and you&amp;#039;ll learn.      Learning By Heart: Begin Again  Photo: The Weinstein Company A burned-out music exec (Mark Ruffalo) is losing his wife and has been fired by his boss (Mos Def) in Begin Again, John Carney&amp;#039;s follow-up to his huge breakout debut, Once. But life brightens for the frazzled fellow when he falls in with an English chanteuse (Keira Knightley) who&amp;#039;s been dumped by her smug rock-star beau (Adam Levine). How is Knightley&amp;#039;s singing? Sweetly soft and low. You got a problem with that? We don&amp;#039;t.      Talking &amp;#039;Bout Bad Girls: Tammy  Photo: Michael Packett/Warner Bros. Melissa McCarthy and her hubby (and co-writer, director, and fellow cast member), Ben Falcone, have put a fresh spin on the funniest foulmouthed woman in America with Tammy. It&amp;#039;s a road movie in which Tammy (McCarthy) takes her grandma (Susan Sarandon) along to ride shotgun. But it&amp;#039;s Granny who&amp;#039;s the bad girl here, picking up piping-hot seniors and making the car rock while her horrified granddaughter almost manages to avert her eyes.      A version of this article appeared in the July issue of ELLE magazine. Related:  20 Lessons in &amp;#039;Pulp Fiction&amp;#039; Useful for Everyday Life  Related:  Clint Eastwood Turns &amp;#039;Jersey Boys&amp;#039; Into a Sophisticated Human Drama  Related:  10 Awesomely Sinister Women in Movie History  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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