Lovers’ tragedy set in New York City in the days leading up to and including 9/11, leaving aside the green-and-white prologue set ten years earlier. Robert Pattinson of “the Twilight saga” and Emilie de Ravin of the TV series Lost do a generally credible and at times mortifying job of behaving like young people trying to impress one another when they hardly yet know who they themselves are, and when they are each having to deal with pre-existing tragedies and troublesome fathers (Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, respectively). It’s possible that 9/11 as a dramatic device could be employed too often in films, and it’s certain that it can be employed too facilely (see Dear John, etc.), but if we accept that date as the 12/7 of our time — as our benchmark, that is, of the sudden and complete changeability of life — we must grant that it hasn’t to this point been employed in films anywhere near as much as Pearl Harbor, and that it therefore has a lot more mileage in it. And the piling of new tragedy on top of old tragedy lends the film a seriousness of purpose that can (unlike Dear John, etc.) actually be taken seriously. Directed by Allen Coulter. (2010) — Duncan Shepherd