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Leonardo DiCaprio (center) in The Revenant In 1908, Jack London wrote a short story that became an oft-anthologized classic, titled ...

Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl With The Danish Girl, the art-film world has effected a small ...

The Big Short, featuring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt. Considering that the labyrinthine complexity deliberately cloaked ...

Daisy Ridley plays the savvy scrap-metal scavenger Rey, who has unspecified mysterious origins, mystical and mechanical talents and a whole ...

Saoirse Ronan as Eilis in Brooklyn. In these sorry times when a viable presidential campaign can be built on proposals ...

More than anything, what makes this movie franchise work is the serendipitous casting of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss. The books ...

Travel writer Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) takes a long-lost old friend (Nick Nolte) for a hike along the Appalachian Trail ...

Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel in The End of the Tour. Think of the best raconteurs you’ve known in your ...

Shaun the Sheep is based on a British TV show that is itself a spinoff of the 1995 Wallace and ...

Paul Rudd in Ant-man The bad news about Ant-Man (no news at all to serious Marvel fans) is that it ...

The movie tells the story of Riley (voiced by Kaitlin Dias), a happy, well-adjusted 11-year-old girl with loving parents (Diane ...

Paul Dano as Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy The history of popular music is loaded with sibling bands who ...

Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man/Tony Stark in The Avengers: Age of Ultron My snobby resistance to comic-book-based movies having ...

Al Pacino and Christopher Plummer in Danny Collins Until 2010, Steve Tilston was a name whose fame extended only to ...

Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds stand in front of the stolen Gustav Klimt masterpiece Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer in Woman ...

Home features the voices of Rihanna, Jim Parsons and Steve Martin. (Dreamworks) It’s that post-Oscars doldrums time of year, when ...

The ‘Til Death Do Us Part story in Wild Tales (Relajes Salvages) features Erica Rivas and Diego Gentile. Whichever anonymous ...

Timothy Spall as J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner Having now finally seen Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, I need ...

Julianne Moore in Still Alice For all the eminently justifiable hand-wringing about the persistent disproportionately low number of toothsome Hollywood ...

Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum in Jupiter Ascending First things first: If, in spite of all the reviews that are ...