Devil’s Knot
A detailed yet shallow police-procedural dramatization
Movies
Short Term 12
Character-driven, emotionally authentic little miracle
Picking Up Trouble in Tokyo
“Dating coaching” video draws international condemnation
Halloween at the Shibuya Scramble
All Hallows’ Eve at one of Tokyo’s busiest and craziest spots
Behind-the-scenes with Che’nelle
Exclusive footage of our cover shoot with the beautiful songstress
Sabotage
A sloppy, ultraviolent whodunit from David Ayer
The Double
Modern, sci-fi Dostoyevsky adaptation
Futuropolis
Time warp to terror on Thursday!
The Guest
Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens absolutely nails it
Onodera no Ototo Onodera no Ane
A story about an awkward and endearing pair of siblings
The Birdman Cometh
25 years after Burton’s Batman, Michael Keaton takes on a mirrorverse role
Nymphomaniac Vol. II
Humor replaced with hardcore unpleasantness
The Expendables 3
A cartoonish piece of brainless junk
Son of a Gun
The prison-heist-gangster cliché playbook
The Hundred-Foot Journey
This foody crowd-pleaser is pretty bland
Jersey Boys
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons via Clint Eastwood
Walking Dead Season 5
The walkers return 10pm Sunday on Fox
Cuban Fury
Child salsa prodigy gets his groove back
The Equalizer
A pulpy vigilante fantasy starring Denzel Washington
Hercules
This mythic muddle is a major misfire
Minyon Baion no Hosoku
An intermingling of Korean, Japanese and music
Grace of Monaco
Dramatically inert middlebrow mush
Epic
Talk about a misleading title
A Most Wanted Man
Understaded, striking and suspenseful