Info: Opens today in theaters everywhere; rated PG for mild adventure action and brief language; 95 minutes.

Family films don't get much fluffier than this trifle, starring Abigail Breslin as a plucky 11-year-old living on a South Pacific island with her marine-biologist dad (Gerard Butler) and her many animal friends. When Dad becomes lost at sea and the island threatened by cruise-ship tourists, Nim asks for help from her adventurer hero Alex Rover - but Nim's e-mail is instead read by the fictional hero's author, Alexandra Rover (Jodie Foster), an agorophobe who doesn't leave her San Francisco apartment for months on end. Husband-and-wife directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett go for a lighthearted vibe as Nim works to survive alone on the island, and Foster lets loose with a previously unknown talent for screwball comedy. But even the kids in the audience will feel a bit insulted by the dumbed-down dialogue and a bit cheated by the bargain-basement special effects.

Shine a Light

Info: Opens today in IMAX at the Megaplex 17 at Jordan Commons; rated PG-13 for brief strong language, drug references and smoking; 121 minutes.

No director gets to put a personal stamp on a Rolling Stones concert documentary, and Martin Scorsese's contribution to this one is mostly on the fringes: some uninformative archival interviews and a showy postscript. Scorsese (whose "The Last Waltz" was a classic of the genre) keeps things flowing during the concert itself, performed in late 2006 at New York's Beacon Theater, and shows the band at its professional best: Mick Jagger acting as the ageless cheerleader, while Keith Richards looks relaxed-bordering-on-dead while jamming with bandmates Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts. Guest performers Jack White and Christina Aguilera show up, but the prime cameo is from Buddy Guy on a Muddy Waters tune, "Champagne and Reefer." "Shine a Light" should be taken with past Stones docs (the Maysles brothers' "Gimme Shelter" in 1971, Hal Ashby's "Let's Spend the Night Together" in 1983, the IMAX-filmed "At the Max" in 1991, and tour videos in 1995 and 1997) as a continuum, the rock 'n' roll equivalent of Michael Apted's "Up" series - a milepost of the band's journey into rockin' old age.

The Rape of Europa

Info: Opens today at the Broadway Centre Cinemas; not rated, but probably PG-13 for wartime footage; 117 minutes.

It's hard to think of a more noble subject for a documentary: the Nazis' systematic pillaging of Europe's art treasures before and during World War II, and the heroic efforts by historians and art curators to undo the damage. (One episode in the movie shows when one painting, François Boucher's 18th-century work "Les Amoureux Jeunes (The Young Lovers)," was discovered in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in 2004 and returned to the daughter of the Jewish art dealer in Paris who owned it.) But the movie's three directors - Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen and Nicole Newnham - sap the drama out of the story (adapted from Lynn H. Nicholas' book) with slow pacing, a dispassionate accumulation of facts and a too-dry narration by Joan Allen.