Movie reviews: Rosewater, The Canal, Top Five

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart makes the leap from small to big screen as writer-director of Rosewater (15A), a political drama about the aftermath of the 2009 Iranian election. 

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari (Gael García Bernal) travels to Teheran to cover the election for Newsweek, but gets caught up in the widespread protests that follow a deeply suspect, landslide victory for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.