Monsters: The Dark Continent
Miss this if you’re looking for good monster-battling
Movies
It Follows
This intensely haunting film is a righteous freak-out
Crimson Peak
Not so much a ghost story as a story with ghosts in it
Bridge of Spies
Thoroughly satisfying spy saga by Spielberg and the Coen Brothers
The Case Against 8
A thoroughly engaging doc on California’s legal battle over same-sex marriage
Pop Etc. Plays it Back
Chris Chu packs up some souvenirs on new album
Heaven Knows What
Well-made, daring, and without a false moment
Life
A biodrama well worth a look
Creed
This one’s a knockout
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
She’s Funny That Way
You can’t take the ’70s out of Peter Bogdanovich