Creed
This one’s a knockout
Movies
In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter
The film is as slow and amicable as its subject
Pawn Sacrifice
Absorbing, intelligent, and suspenseful
Her Father, My Lover
This soap opera-like yarn addresses a serious corner of Japanese romance
Straight Outta Compton
Vigorously entertaining, educational, and more provocative than most
Two Night Stand
Predictable, stubbornly generic rom-com
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The legacy flick restores the fun to the franchise
The Peanuts Movie
I left the theater saddened
Persona Non Grata
The flick captures the intense humanity of Chiune Sugihara
Crossfaith goes Cross-culture
The metal quintet’s Kenta Koie on metal and world domination
He Named Me Malala
Genuinely moving film about the Nobel Peace Laureate
Comet
Worth a look, depending on your resistance to talky movies
Inequality for All
Everyone should see this enthralling economics doc
The Monuments Men
A few flashes of brilliance, but frustratingly flat
The Sacrament
A pointless and exploitative re-creation of the Jonestown mass suicide
You’re Not You
Well-intentioned, sisterhood-empowerment weepie
Woman in Gold
Of greater historic than dramatic interest
Spectre
Daniel Craig remains the best Bond, whose name isn’t Sean Connery
The Runner
This well-meaning morality tale is strangely inert
The Rewrite
This comfort food of a movie is reasonably intelligent
The Green Inferno
Retread pastiche by schlockmeister Eli Roth
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
Lacks thrills, Daniel Radcliffe, and a reason for existing
The Little Prince
Absolutely charming
The Peanuts Movie
I left the theater saddened
American Heist
This will rob you of 94 minutes of your life
Dumb and Dumber To
It’s well written and paced, and there’s an infectious enthusiasm
Everest
The only star of this film is the implacable mountain itself
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films
There are insights and amusement aplenty here
Afternoon Delight
Offbeat fun with a bizarre dramatic turn
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Amusingly retro, great-looking, and totally forgettable
Last Knights
Yet another low-budget 47 Ronin riff
My Old Lady
Be warned that the film is tonally uneven
Battles Royale
Instrumental rock trio tours third album, La Di Da Di
Foujita
Kohei Oguri visits bohemian Montparnasse
Moonwalkers
Comedy bar’s low, but the film’s lack of ambition is one of its charms
Earth to Echo
Sure to delight you—if you’re eight