ROAD TO PERDITION 
(Max on Comcast) Sam Mendes’s second movie is more ambitious than “American Beauty,’’ but suffers from not being about much of anything beyond its own comeliness. Tom Hanks plays a Depression-era gangster, Jude Law the hit man gunning for him. The first hour couldn’t be drearier, but the final sequence has an almost supernatural suspense. (R; runs through Feb. 24) WESLEY MORRIS
BURIED 
(Comcast Movies: All Movies) As premises go, this one isn’t bad. What if Ryan Reynolds made an Olivia de Havilland movie? It’s “Lady in a Cage’’ or “The Snake Pit’’ for subscribers of Gentleman’s Quarterly, only the sets are a lot smaller. Reynolds plays a truck driver who finds himself buried alive in Iraq. The central mysteries — how did he get into this mess and how will he get out? — are reasonably entertaining. But the movie makes an embarrassing, gimmicky detour into current political events. (R; runs through June 4) WESLEY MORRIS
