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'Kon-Tiki,' this time in English, recounts incredible journey
"Kon-Tiki" is a ripping yarn torn from yesterday's headlines. Though somewhat forgotten now, the 1947 story of six men, an oceangoing raft and…
Spirited lark 'Angels Share' keeps you rooting to end
You'll have to wait until it ends to see whether crime pays in Ken Loach's spirited caper "The Angels' Share." But it's a testament to the vet…
'Wrong' doesn't feel right
Quentin Dupieux's "Rubber" remains one of the most ridiculously inventive movies of recent years, an alternate universe horror film about a ti…
'Erased' never sketches in decent villain for Eckhart
Just once, it'd be nice if the couple fleeing from a trigger-happy hit man through, say, a crowded hospital, would yell out - "Run for your li…
Provocative 'Simon Killer' taps darkness
"Simon Killer" is an amoral tale, and a cautionary one, that reminded me my mama was right when she said "Never talk to strangers" and "Looks …
The student, teacher become chillingly obsessed with family
The teacher is a veteran of the French school system, not burnt out but resigned to the mediocrity of each new crop of high school sophomores.…
Tech is tool of alienation in well-acted 'Disconnect'
We unplug our phone from the charger, pop in our ear buds and go out to seize the day. We text compulsively, post on Facebook obsessively, and…
'The Big Wedding': Unhappily ever after
"Marriage is like a phone call late at night," Robert De Niro says, in dulcet voice-over mode, at the outset of "The Big Wedding." "First come…
'Arthur Newman': First things Firth
Colin Firth has the uncanny ability to play both king and commoner with the same compassion, dignity and reverence. Whether it was his lovesic…
Actine fine in "The Company You Keep"; ages don't add up
Robert Redford delivers one last lecture on '60s idealism and passes another baton to Shia LaBeouf in "The Company You Keep," an engrossing th…
Southern melodrama 'Mud' revels in authentic milieu
The cinema's leading purveyor of Southern Gothic, Jeff Nichols, hands Matthew McConaughey his latest tour de force turn in "Mud," a down and d…
Imagery emphasized over plot in 'Wonder'
Neil (Ben Affleck) and Marina (Olga Kurylenko) fall in love in France, commit to staying together and settle into life in Oklahoma with her yo…
'The Sapphires' treads lightly on plot but sparkles with fun
Among the many ways that Australia's history mirrors our own is that both nations sent native peoples to reservations and sent soldiers to fig…
'Fierce Green Fire' a film barometer of 50 years of ecological gains, challenges
A kind of crash course in 50-plus years of environmentalism, the documentary "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet," adapted fr…
'Gatekeepers' forces Shin Bet chiefs to face Israel's divisions
The Oscar-nominated documentary "The Gatekeepers" is built around interviews with the last six chiefs of the Israeli intelligence service, Shi…
Half-baked mind games mar movie version of 'The Host'
Hollywood has always shown a fondness for adapting books - whether they be classic, contemporary or comic - into movies. Not only does this pr…
Film aims for jugular of warming deniers
Seven years after "An Inconvenient Truth," what has changed in the world's efforts to come to grips with global warming? The scientific consen…
'War Witch' captivates in unexpected ways
LOS ANGELES - The powerful things we expect from "War Witch" are as advertised, but what we don't expect is even better.
'Olympus Has Fallen' never quite gets up; not much more than a shoot-'em-up
For those who thought the last Bruce Willis movie was a little light on the casualty list, "Olympus Has Fallen" arrives toting the biggest bod…
'Stoker' a fractured fairy tale
There's a suggestion of vampirism in the title of "Stoker." The stylish chiller shares its name with Dracula's author, but its fixation on blo…
'Dahmer Files' doesn't exploit, adds new perspective on killer
Mesmerizing and haunting, "The Jeffrey Dahmer Files" is an inside-out serial killer movie, lacking in gore or cheap psychology and made in par…
'Koch' shows ex-mayor's great love was New York
What an entertaining rapscallion Ed Koch was during his run as mayor of New York in the late '70s and '80s. Popular, polarizing, loved, hated,…
'Dead Man Down' is a lifeless, inane film
Suspending disbelief is a part of watching most any action film, where bullets fly like birds and mayhem explodes as easily as a shaken soda can.
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In the movies' version of March Madness, Sam Raimi turns out to be a much better Tim Burton than Bryan Singer. Unlike "Giant Slayer" Singer, S…
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