Reviews
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‘Birth of the Dragon’ Review: Young Bruce Lee Remembered in Old-School Kung Fu Flick
Despite the front-and-center Caucasian character, this true tale of a showdown between Lee and a Shaolin master has cheesy appeal
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‘England Is Mine’ Review: Morrissey Biopic Feels Like a Perfectly Unhappy Smiths Song
Britain’s most acclaimed ’80s music icon gets solemn, reverent treatment from director Mark Gill and co-screenwriter William Thacker
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‘Leap!’ Review: French Animated Tale of a Wannabe Ballerina Is Harmless Family Fare
This unassuming, occasionally heartwarming piece of uplift set in 1880s Paris puts an orphan girl’s dance ambitions front and center
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‘What Happened to Monday’ Review: Noomi Rapace Is Woman Times Seven in Sci-Fi Dystopia
Glenn Close and Willem Dafoe co-star in Netflix action tale where seven sisters pretend to be just one
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‘Marjorie Prime’ Review: Jon Hamm Hologram Romances an Ailing Widow
This soulful sci-fi drama showcases the talents of veteran actress Lois Smith
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‘American Made’ Review: Tom Cruise Flies Between Comedy and Tension, Missing Both
Director Doug Liman flirts with scuzziness and political satire but shies away from the darkness
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‘Lemon’ Review: Brett Gelman Is Best at Playing the Worst
The comic flourishes in this biting comedy that sends up all those annoying sad-white-dude-in-an-indie tropes
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‘Logan Lucky’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Returns With Well-Oiled Heist Flick
Channing Tatum heads a crew of redneck robbers in a NASCAR-set clockwork crowd-pleaser from the un-retired master craftsman
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‘Patti Cake$’ Review: Indie Hits Familiar Beats But Earns the Hype
As an unlikely rapper on the rise, Danielle Macdonald is, herself, a star in the making
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‘The Wound’ Review: African Drama Explores Manhood Rituals
Suppressed homosexuality suffuses powerful story of three men who have different perspectives on their own yearning
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‘6 Days’ Review: Britain’s Own True-Life Hostage Crisis Is No ‘Argo’
London’s 1980 hostage situation at the Iranian embassy was edgy and taut; the movie version gives it the blandly commercial action treatment
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‘All the Rage (Saved by Sarno)’ Review: Alternative Medicine Doc Lacks Focus
The story of pain specialist Dr. John Sarno is a moving one, but the film could have dug deeper
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‘The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature’ Review: Who Run the World? Squirrels
Surly (Will Arnett) and his four-legged friends band together to fight the schemes of a greedy, land-grabbing mayor
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‘Whose Streets?’ Review: Ferguson Protests Spark Vivid Doc
The sense of a movement coalescing marks this urgent dispatch from the protests following the police shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr.
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‘Annabelle: Creation’ Review: Horror’s Bad Doll Gets a Sinister-Stuffed Origin Story
LAFF: The “Conjuring” spin-off series, in the hands of “Lights Out” director David F. Sandberg, delivers a solid array of haunted house jitters
