In the opening scene of “Reign Over Me,” we hear the strains of Graham Nash’s “Simple Man,” and see a spectral figure, head encased in huge headphones, buzzing through the streets of nighttime ...

Writer-director Mike Binder (The Upside of Anger) is unusually skilled at modulating between the comic and the tragic, and though the pain of this 9/11 story doesn’t pierce as deeply as it should, the ...