A Most Violent Year
A well crafted, atmospheric, and believable film for grown-ups
Movies
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Definitive, exhaustive, and overlong
Ant-Man
A cliché-ridden Marvel second-stringer
Quoth the Räfven
The Swedish klezmer band’s Martin Nurmi on bringing back the dinos
Two Raging Grannies
A touching and relevant documentary
Yūwaku Yūjo: Sora to Shido
“Pink eiga” releases from OP Pictures
The Voices
Whimsical yet witless little creepshow
That Awkward Moment
A male Sex and the City; ’nuff said
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Well-made and superbly cast
Boychoir
Uplifting but unworthy of its great cast
Pixels
Adam Sandler is amazing in how he appalls
San Andreas
A disaster on a gargantuan, bloated scale