Perhaps the biggest blockbuster this summer, “Star Trek Into Darkness” nonetheless throws more than a few curve balls: It is pensive, frosty and often curt, and comes elegantly and aptly dressed in several shades of black. Though there are many moments of humor and ...

“Trois Mondes” was the only film by a female directorshown at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Among the testosterone-fueled macho films that got all the attention (“Killing Them Softly,” “Lawless”) “Trois Mondes” was striking in its approach to death and bodies — the ...

Director: Various Language: English The courier-for-hire role perfected by Jason Statham has passed into the capable hands of Chris Vance as “The Transporter” series moves to TV. Vance makes for a classier, sexier and more amenable transporter who knows how to chat up the ...

Meet Matt, a software engineer in Silicon Valley, California, who recently married his college girlfriend from the University of Southern California. Her name is Miho. The pair are both in their late 30s and there was a 10-year period after university when he didn’t ...

It’s “My Fair Lady” meets “Flashdance” meets the sweet, earnest rom-coms of the 1950s. “Populaire” is the feature debut by French filmmaker Régis Roinsard (most famed for Jane Birkin’s promotional videos) but the film has the look and feel of a veteran artisan: “Some ...

Gerard Butler, most famed for his muscled marauder performance in “300,” always seems on the verge of burning rage or spontaneous combustion — which is why he was a disaster in rom-coms such as “The Bounty Hunter” and “The Ugly Truth.” For all his ...

Director: Robert Zemeckis Language: English National hero or drunken loser? Denzel Washington stars as a smooth operator in the cockpit as well as with his hottie cabin attendants. One morning in a rainstorm, he takes the plane too high, too fast, and when the ...

An intensely personal film by Terrence Malick (“The Tree of Life,” “The Thin Red Line”), “To the Wonder” explores the lives and loves of four people, to the near complete exclusion of everyone else. The films revels in solitude and celebrates seclusion with what ...

When you think about Angelina Jolie in 2013, the term “preventive double mastectomy” may leap to mind. Which is probably why now is a good time to release her 2011 directorial debut, “In the Land of Blood and Honey.” Jolie, who visited Bosnia and ...

Director: Bess Kargman Language: English “First Position” is director Bess Kargman’s understated but powerful depiction of children aged 9 to 15 who have trained for most of their lives to compete in the famed Youth America Grand Prix, hoping to launch their professional dancing ...

Filmmaker David Frankel has an ear for what women say — to each other, to their men and to themselves, though the last is not necessarily made audible to others. That’s certainly the case with Kay (Meryl Streep) in “Hope Springs”: A woman in ...

Feminism is redefined in “Hope Springs,” a tale of two 60-somethings locked in a marriage gone stale and opting for a week of intensive marriage counselling in a picturesque Maine town. Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) have been married for 31 ...