VERTIGO

1958’s shrug is 2012’s world champion
Starring: Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore ♦ 3.5 stars

THE SUBSTANCE

The world’s freakiest Airbnb-type situation, all because of an exercise video
Starring: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid ♦ 2 stars

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR

Most saw stigma at 112 Ocean Ave.; some saw opportunity
Starring: James Brolin, Margo Kidder, Rod Steiger ♦ 2 stars

BLADE RUNNER

Its fandom has long outlived the Replicants
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah ♦ 3 stars

THE BIRDS

What happened to all of the cats in Bodega Bay?
Starring: ‘Tippi’ Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette ♦ 3.5 stars

THE BAD NEWS BEARS

Its 11-year-old co-star made more than most big-league pitchers in 1976
Starring: Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, Vic Morrow, Jackie Earle Haley ♦ 2.5 stars

FIELD OF DREAMS

They threw a World Series for money; now they want to play for free
Starring: Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, Burt Lancaster ♦ 3.5 stars

AMERICAN GRAFFITI

Not everything worked, but the writing was on the wall for this young director
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Quinlan ♦ 3.5 stars

RUDY

Hollywood carries this questionable underdog tale off on its shoulders
Starring: Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty, Jason Miller ♦ 4 stars

THE GODFATHER: PART II

Michael can’t match Vito, but Pacino can outperform Brando
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Lee Strasberg ♦ 4 stars

THE IDEA OF YOU

Did he really ‘genuinely connect’ with the spaghetti tiles in a couple of glances?
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Ella Rubin, Reid Scott ♦ 3.5 stars

ROCKY II

A champion of sequels deserves an ending that’s just a little gutsier
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers, Stuart K. Robinson ♦ 4 stars

CHALLENGERS

It’s a smash hit, but not in the way it hopes
Starring: Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor ♦ 2 stars

THE ORDEAL OF PATTY HEARST

‘The Searchers’ comes to life in a real way
Starring: Dennis Weaver, Lisa Eilbacher, James Karen ♦ 4 stars

HEAVEN CAN WAIT

Warren Beatty’s out of body experience
Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Charles Grodin, James Mason ♦ 4 stars

OPPENHEIMER

Politics from Berkeley, right down the middle
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon ♦ 4 stars

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

Czech marks for all the boxes of Oscar aspirations
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint ♦ 3 stars

THE PURSUIT OF D.B. COOPER

Notorious hijacker meets ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’
Starring: Robert Duvall, Treat Williams, Kathryn Harrold ♦ 2 stars

INTERIORS

Woody Allen goes wading in to serious family drama
Starring: Mary Beth Hurt, Geraldine Page, Diane Keaton ♦ 3 stars

CHINATOWN

A Marlowe-like private eye tries to rescue a woman who doesn’t want to be rescued
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston   ♦   4 stars

ANATOMY OF A FALL

The hazards of writing fiction for a living
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner ♦ 3 stars

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio make another mob movie
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone ♦ 2 stars

STAR WARS

Pauline Kael was underwhelmed
Starring: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness ♦ 4 stars

A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE

What comes after the denial stage of affliction
Starring: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes ♦ 4 stars

PHANTOM THREAD

Why didn’t she just put oil and salt on the asparagus?
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville ♦ 4 stars

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD

Just imagine what they’re going to be talking about next year
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff ♦ 4 stars

AMERICAN GIGOLO

One of many in the genre that’s got a good hook
Starring: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo ♦ 3.5 stars

HARD EIGHT

Win a bet or lose a bet, everyone knows where their next meal is coming from
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Samuel L. Jackson ♦ 3 stars

LICORICE PIZZA

’70s nostalgia trip through the Valley finds itself running on fumes
Starring: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper ♦ 3.5 stars

THE WAY WE WERE

Admit it, you can’t get the song out of your head
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Lois Chiles ♦ 3.5 stars

TÁR

A tribute to Mahler with an accent on marketing
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss ♦ 3 stars

MEPHISTO

An actor sells his soul to the toughest of crowds
Starring: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Rolf Hoppe, Karin Boyd ♦ 4 stars

PARIS, TEXAS

Healing one family means ripping apart another
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Hunter Carson ♦ 4 stars

RISKY BUSINESS

What to do when a handsome, Princeton-bound lad can’t get a date
Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Megan Mullally ♦ 3 stars

SOUL MAN

The movie that could never be made today ... or could it?
Starring: C. Thomas Howell, James Earl Jones, Rae Dawn Chong ♦ 3 stars

WORKING GIRL

Just because the shoe fits, you don’t have to wear it
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver ♦ 3.5 stars

STAR 80

Bob Fosse grinds an ax with Hollywood
Starring: Eric Roberts, Mariel Hemingway, Cliff Robertson ♦ 3.5 stars

PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED

When the toughest test in high school isn’t in that algebra class
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Jim Carrey ♦ 3 stars

DIRTY DANCING

Baby’s got guts, and so does this sensational underdog
Starring: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, Jack Weston ♦ 3.5 stars

THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT

A vulnerable young woman risks being board out of her mind
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster ♦ 3 stars

NOMADLAND

Reentry is a necessary option when going off the grid
Starring: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Swankie ♦ 3 stars

SPELLBOUND (2002)

If you enjoy memorizing the dictionary, you’ve got a chance
Featuring: Nupur Lala, Neil Kadakia, Harry Altman, Paige Kimble ♦ 3 stars

NATALIE WOOD: WHAT REMAINS BEHIND

The Wagnerites take some shots at the Zakharenkos
Featuring: Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Natasha Gregson Wagner ♦ 3 stars

ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD

As if we could do to them anything remotely as bad as what they did to everyone else
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Kurt Russell ♦ 3 stars

THE FABELMANS

Steven Spielberg takes Michelle Williams on a camp trip
Starring: Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, David Lynch ♦ 2 stars

MON ONCLE ANTOINE

Among the more unhappier Christmases you’ll ever experience
Starring: Jacques Gagnon, Jean Duceppe, Lionel Villeneuve ♦ 3 stars

CRITICAL CARE

End-of-life messages that get flatlined by the box office
Starring: James Spader, Helen Mirren, Albert Brooks ♦ 2.5 stars

HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A.

Digging for drama in Appalachia, sometimes finding a lump of coal
Featuring: Lois Scott, Basil Collins, Barbara Kopple ♦ 3 stars

THE MULE

Take it or leave it, but don’t call yourself a victim
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest ♦ 3 stars

MILDRED PIERCE, MOMMIE DEAREST

The triumph and trip-up of a Hollywood giant
Starring: Joan Crawford, Faye Dunaway ♦ 4 stars/3 stars

HUSBANDS

Sometimes the promotional tour can be even worse than the movie
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes ♦ 2 stars

THE FABULOUS ALLAN CARR

He was even bigger than he cracked himself up to be
Featuring: Allan Carr, Bruce Vilanch, Robert Osborne ♦ 4 stars

ROMA

If only the cars fit, everything else might too
Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Jorge Antonio Guerrero ♦ 3 stars

GREEN BOOK

Remarkably predictable road trip impressively keeps the pedal to the metal
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini ♦ 3 stars

LA VIE EN ROSE

A star is torn, by insomnia, insecurity, genetics
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Gérard Depardieu ♦ 4 stars

10

The number that’s still the standard after 40 years of inflation
Starring: Bo Derek, Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews ♦ 3 stars

LAST TANGO IN PARIS

The most controversial film ever made
Starring: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud ♦ 3 stars

THE CHINA SYNDROME

The suits can cause just about anything to have a meltdown
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas ♦ 3.5 stars

RUST AND BONE

Life finally begins to add up for a whale trainer as a fight club accountant
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Corinne Masiero ♦ 3 stars

BILL COWHER, HEART AND STEEL

A legendary coach covers rare ground on the subjects of marriage, dating
Featuring: Bill Cowher, Kaye Cowher, Marty Schottenheimer, V ♦ 3 stars

ANNIE HALL

The costume designer was not even nominated for an Oscar
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Carol Kane ♦ 2 stars

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

Caveat emptor, for your ticket as much as anything else
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Jane Curtin ♦ 1 star

AIR

When the grimy world of basketball recruiting meets corporate Zen
Starring: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman ♦ 3 stars

THE LAST METRO

When the Nazis are far more inept than intimidating
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Heinz Bennent ♦ 3 stars

MOLLY’S GAME

Aaron Sorkin and Jessica Chastain should have folded this travesty
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner ♦ 1 star

SHOAH

A filmmaker opts against editing, for better or worse
Featuring: Simon Srebnik, Abraham Bomba, Filip Müller, Rudolf Vrba ♦ 3 stars

THE SILENCE, PERSONA, THE SHINING

Comparisons: How two legendary directors found drama in a hallway
Starring: Gunnel Lindblom, Liv Ullmann, Jack Nicholson ♦ 4 stars (3)

OBIT.

Journalism’s bourgeoisie complain about untimely deaths
Featuring: Bruce Weber, Margalit Fox, Jeff Roth ♦ 3 stars

HOUSE OF GUCCI

Feels at times like a cheap knockoff, but there’s value in the brand
Starring: Lady Gaga, Al Pacino, Adam Driver, Jeremy Irons ♦ 3 stars

DAY FOR NIGHT

The only thing that can stop a bad movie is a little hanky panky
Starring: François Truffaut, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dani ♦ 4 stars

CLAIRE’S KNEE

Stunning visuals make this one for the ages
Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Laurence de Monaghan ♦ 3.5 stars

SÁTÁNTANGÓ

Béla Tarr pushes the boundaries as well as the clock
Starring: Mihály Vig, Miklós Székely, Erika Bók, Peter Berling ♦ 4 stars

BILL WALTON, BASKETBALL’S GREATEST

The ultimate BMOC’s “Back from the Dead” warns of underachievement
Featuring: Bill Walton, John Wooden, Maurice Lucas ♦ 4 stars

LACOMBE, LUCIEN
(and THE SORROW AND THE PITY)

When the Germans didn’t seem like the worst option
Featuring: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler ♦ 4 stars/4 stars

DON’T THINK TWICE

Comedy can be a very serious business
Starring: Mike Birbiglia, Gillian Jacobs, Keegan-Michael Key ♦ 4 stars

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

The grief is endless; so’s the movie
Starring: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams ♦ 2 stars

THE PAPER CHASE

If you can’t marry your prof, maybe his daughter will do
Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman ♦ 4 stars

MELVIN AND HOWARD

If the will thing doesn’t work out, there’s always country music
Starring: Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen ♦ 2 stars

BARRY LYNDON

When you cease to care, the odds are in your favor
Starring: Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee ♦ 4 stars

THE LOST DAUGHTER

The thugs at the Greece theater were crashing the wrong movie
Starring: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris ♦ 1 star

MARGARET

Girl, you’ll be a woman ... already
Starring: Anna Paquin, J. Smith-Cameron, Matt Damon ♦ 3 stars

SAVE THE TIGER

Criminality is just one of the burning issues in searing ’70s portrait
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman ♦ 4 stars

THE BLING RING

A dive into the shallow end of the criminality pool
Starring: Emma Watson, Katie Chang, Israel Broussard   ♦   4 stars

WHIPLASH

One degenerate’s approval should not be the cymbal of success
Starring: J.K. Simmons, Miles Teller, Paul Reiser   ♦   4 stars

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

When there are too many doctors in town and not any shrinks
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Laverne Cox ♦ 3 stars

SELMA

Too much a re-creation, its most vivid images are the ending footage
Starring: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Roth   ♦   3 stars

NIGHTCRAWLER

How far a young entrepreneur can go just by leaving one thing behind
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton   ♦   3.5 stars

THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN

A pair of left-leaning megastars introduce Morning in America
Starring: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Willie Nelson   ♦   3.5 stars

THE PLAYER

Jerks and slackers can make a killing in Hollywood
Starring: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward   ♦   3.5 stars

WALL STREET

Gordon Gekko can’t be sold short in this flawed depiction of greed
Starring: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen ♦ 3.5 stars

PATTON

Defense of the institution is The Most Important Film Ever Made
Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young   ♦   4 stars

GRAN TORINO

Clint still can draw a gun like no other in this pleasing tale of tolerance
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Christopher Carley   ♦   3.5 stars

BROADCAST NEWS

An ethical breach derails a relationship that never should’ve happened
Starring: William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks, Jack Nicholson   ♦   2.5 stars

A FEW GOOD MEN

“Patton” extension denounces old-school military but enjoys the sexism
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Pollak ♦ 4 stars

THE DOORS

An Oscar-snubbed performance so good, Jim Morrison doesn’t deserve it
Starring: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Kathleen Quinlan   ♦   3.5 stars

THE CARD COUNTER

There are bad hands at the WSOP, and then there are the really raw deals
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Tiffany Haddish, Willem Dafoe ♦ 3 stars

THE SECRET OF MY SUCCE$S

Underrated corporate-climbing caper thrives on winging it
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Margaret Whitton   ♦   3 stars

50/50

Half-baked therapist dramedy has a heart
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick   ♦   2.5 stars

THE GODFATHER

History’s most celebrated gangster film is a cleverly disguised tragedy
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall   ♦   4 stars

THE WRESTLER

Poignant story, but the cable TV guys are better at producing wrestling drama
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood   ♦   3.5 stars

THE READER

A young man finds himself in position to render a verdict on a nation’s guilt
Starring: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz   ♦   3.5 stars

MILK

Splendid documentary material doesn’t pack a Hollywood punch
Starring: Sean Penn, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch   ♦   3 stars

THE VISITOR

Different people live in different worlds, even when sharing an apartment
Starring: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Hiam Abbass, Danai Gurira   ♦   3 stars

THE AFTERMATH

The Marshall Plan didn’t account for this kind of complication
Starring: Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke ♦ 3 stars

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

Woe to be young again — this reverse-chronology epic might not age well
Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton   ♦   2.5 stars

FROZEN RIVER

A desperate family is on thin ice in this powerful portrayal of the poor
Starring: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Michael O’Keefe   ♦   4 stars

THE WIFE

When a writer is really good but has nothing to show for it
Starring: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater ♦ 2 stars

BOLDEN

Who knew that greedy managers and drugs were a problem on the music circuit?
Starring: Gary Carr, Erik LaRay Harvey, Reno Wilson ♦ 1 star

JT LEROY

A passive-aggressive treat in a masquerade of a movie
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Diane Kruger ♦ 2 stars

DOUBT

An unbreakable nun’s strongest suspicions are put to the test
Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman ♦ 3.5 stars

FROST/NIXON

It’s David vs. Goliath in the combative arena of ... TV interviewing
Starring: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon   ♦   2.5 stars

I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG

Can this dazzling woman’s criminal background be for real?
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius   ♦   4 stars

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

An orphan in India makes the most of his less-than-1-in-4 shot in life
Starring: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan   ♦   3.5 stars

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS

A child near a concentration camp wonders about those ‘farmers’
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis   ♦   3.5 stars

CHANGELING

The mother of all actresses faces a horrifying search for son
Starring: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Michael Kelly   ♦   4 stars

SACHEEN LITTLEFEATHER’S SPEECH

“He very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award”
Featuring: Sacheen Littlefeather, Marlon Brando

W.

It’s Bush satire vs. Bush fatigue in this tardy caricature
Starring: Josh Brolin, James Cromwell, Richard Dreyfuss   ♦   2.5 stars

RACHEL GETTING MARRIED

Sisters spar over their dueling psychological practices
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Debra Winger   ♦   4 stars

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK

A theater director confronts life’s script
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton ♦ 3 stars

THE NAMESAKE

An Indian father finds a Russian author more powerful than his son does
Starring: Tabu, Kal Penn, Irrfan Khan, Jacinda Barrett, Sahira Nair   ♦   3 stars

WALL-E

What on Earth could happen to the human race?
Starring: Ben Burtt (voice), Elissa Knight (voice), Jeff Garlin (voice)   ♦   3 stars

THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN

Collision of raunch vs. values delivers two of the most rewarding scenes in memory
Starring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Seth Rogen, Kat Dennings   ♦   4 stars

THAT GAL... WHO WAS IN THAT THING

Pre-#MeToo, women spoke of showing off physical features to land roles
Featuring: Paget Brewster, Donna Massetti, Roma Maffia ♦ 3.5 stars

THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

A newer cause hits close to home for a former ’70s radical
Starring: Robert Redford, Julie Christie, Shia LaBeouf   ♦   2.5 stars

KNIGHT OF CUPS

Terrence Malick’s script doesn’t begin to explain a screenwriter’s life
Starring: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman ♦ 3.5 stars

RAIN MAN

Raymond Babbitt steals hearts, while brother Charlie steals the show
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Valeria Golino, Jerry Molen   ♦   4 stars

BACK TO THE FUTURE

Time travel tale poses big question — do we really have the capacitor to change?
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover   ♦   4 stars

ULEE’S GOLD

Bee-lieve it: The healing of a broken family is as sweet as the Tupelo honey
Starring: Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford   ♦   4 stars

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG

Two people from opposite worlds can’t bear to lose their home
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Shohreh Aghdashloo   ♦   4 stars

ROUNDERS

Drop law school and a gorgeous girlfriend to play poker in Vegas. Sounds like a plan.
Starring: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Malkovich   ♦   3 stars

IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH

For one unit, getting home from Iraq is only half the battle
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon   ♦   3 stars

NOTORIOUS

An American agent may care more about a mission than his beautiful contact
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern   ♦   4 stars

NORTH BY NORTHWEST

Whoever Kaplan is, he’s got nothing on Cary Grant
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason   ♦   4 stars

THE CANDIDATE

Long before Barack Obama, this satire would get your vote
Starring: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter   ♦   4 stars

DIE HARD

One of cinema’s greatest villains meets one of its greatest heroes
Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia   ♦   3.5 stars

GOOD WILL HUNTING

Society tries to push a genius whose deep scars haven’t healed
Starring: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver   ♦   3.5 stars

THE QUEEN

God — and Blair — save the sovereign from a P.R. disaster
Starring: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory ♦ 3 stars

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

Tony Manero conquers at least one demon while exploring if it’s all Bay Ridge’s fault
Starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller   ♦   4 stars

MARIA FULL OF GRACE

A 17-year-old going on 37 needs every one of those years
Starring: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Patricia Rae   ♦   4 stars

CASABLANCA

A triumph of love and sacrifice over romance and passion
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains   ♦   4 stars

PULP FICTION

Truth is, this aspiring B movie is one of the funniest ever
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis   ♦   4 stars

THE MALTESE FALCON

Famous noir vies to be the stuff legendary films are made of
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet   ♦   3.5 stars

LOVE & MERCY

Sometimes a man needs a woman to stand up for himself
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Paul Dano, John Cusack   ♦   3 stars

TICK, TICK ... BOOM!

A production within a production about a production; flashbacks within flashbacks ...
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Robin de Jesús, Vanessa Hudgens ♦ 2 stars

IRON MAN

A triumph of what a man can accomplish when he puts his mind to it
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow   ♦   3.5 stars

ROBERT EVANS: THE KID
STAYS IN THE PICTURE

A giant of judging art implies collaboration brings the greatest results

SHIRLEY JONES: A MEMOIR

Dysfunctional, sex-fueled family wasn’t exactly the Partridges

MARATHON MAN

A young Jewish man battles a Nazi in a farfetched endurance test
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider   ♦   2.5 stars

ROOM

Claustrophobia and stigma are a powerful 1-2 punch
Starring: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen ♦ 4 stars

ROAD HOUSE

Opinions vary, but this is the best butt-kickin’ film ever made
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott   ♦   3.5 stars



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