Capsule reviews of films opening this week:

Andre Techine's many admirers will not be disappointed by his latest offering, "The Girl on the Train," but they might be hard-pressed to define it.

IFC Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Alexis Dos Santo's "Unmade Beds," a romantic drama starring Deborah Francois and Fernando Tielve.

Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, who won the Academy Award for "Slumdog Millionaire," is working on the script for DreamWorks Animation's "Truckers."

Summit Entertainment has unlocked "The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero," picking up feature film rights to the biography by William Kalush and Larry Sloman.

About four hundred military service members will get a sneak peek at Woody Harrelson's latest movie, "The Messenger."

The half brother of Dane Cook has been ordered held on $1 million bail on charges alleging he stole millions of dollars from the comedian.

Amber Tamblyn is in final negotiations to star in "Main Street," a Southern drama set to start shooting next month.

Wayne Lewellen, the former longtime head of distribution for Paramount Pictures, has died at age 65.

There was a reason the 1970s were called "The Swinging '70's," and a big part of it was the rise of a New York City nightclub called "Plato's Retreat" -- a sort of disco for open sex.