Hollywood Hits and Misses: 2009's best and worst moments

A Sundance gem if ever there was one, "Sin Nombre" tells two stories: one of a young woman from Honduras who joins her father and uncle as they make their way on train tops through Guatemala and Mexico to get to relatives in New Jersey; the other about a young gang member from southern Mexico, who with his gang, robs those riding north on the tops of freight cars. Lives intersect. Coming of age has never been less schmaltzy. --HIT

-- Denise Martin, latimes.com