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The once-promising Michael Polish of the once-promising Polish Brothers (“North Fork”) directed his wife, Kate Bosworth, in “Amnesiac.” And the only memorable thing about this middling thriller is its resemblance to its betters, from “Misery” to “Before I Go to … Continue reading →

“Mission: Impossible, Rogue Nation” won another weekend, nipping “Fantastic Four” on its opening weekend — $29 million and change to $26 million+. “Vacation” added theaters, and lost audience. It will not clear $50 million, all in. It’s at $37. “The … Continue reading →

When it’s all counted up Sunday night — late — we will know for sure who nudged out whom in the box office race this first full weekend of August. Shockingly, “Fantastic Four” has overcome terrible reviews and appears headed … Continue reading →

The weekend reviews are in. And it’s August. So even the well-reviewed pictures have their work cut out for them. But for what it’s worth, the thriller “The Gift” collected top drawer reviews, as did the smaller narrower release “The … Continue reading →

The movies preach that we should never let go of our dreams, and some of us never do, no matter what the universe tells us. “Ricki and the Flash” celebrates such pigheadedness, and gives Meryl Streep her one and only … Continue reading →

The movies are such a man’s world that lobbying for more “coming of age” stories from a female point of view has long been a given. But when “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” is what you get, the lobbyist … Continue reading →

The earnestness drips off Nicolas Cage’s “The Runner” like the sweat of good intentions. But you have to appreciate that rare high-minded effort from an actor who has been frantically collecting paychecks for mostly bad, often lowbrow pictures, for years. … Continue reading →

Perhaps the only way to turn Kahlil Gibran’s romantic, trippy and uplifting “The Prophet” into a movie is to animate it. The actress and producer Salma Hayek got that, and talked Roger Allers (“The Lion King”) into directing the film, … Continue reading →

Primo gets emotional about his kids. Bald and charismatic, a big, cuddly bear of a man with a Persian Empire beard and a vast collection of tattoos, he dotes on his autistic son, his little girl and his wife. And … Continue reading →

History credits the Vikings for discovering and attempting to colonize the New World. But in the movies, those rape-ruin-and-run raiders are always getting lost. They’re stranded on some foreign shore, forced to fight their way home. Richard Widmark had to … Continue reading →