All the ingredients for a mega summer blockbuster are here, but somehow “The Lone Ranger” has failed to captivate U.S. moviegoers. Some estimate it may be the highest-grossing western in history, but it’s still falling far short of recouping its $225 million budget. Too ...

Director: Lynn Shelton Language: English Rosemary DeWitt (“Rachel Getting Married”) and Emily Blunt (“Sunshine Cleaning”) are Hannah and Iris — they’re as different as sisters can be, but they wind up spending time in their family’s getaway cabin with Iris’ chum Jack (Mark Duplass). ...

They say most people have one or more defining childhood incidents — something that sets the course of their adult life and molds their personality. Filmmaker Linda Hoaglund had one, and it was so striking that to this day she can still remember the ...

When the Japanese refer to “the war,” they mean World War II. When they talk about “the bomb,” they mean the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. The event is so familiar, the contours of its tragedy ...

“The Moth Diaries” can be described as the female-fronted equivalent of “Another Country” minus the political angst and overt sexuality. Otherwise, the intense narcissism and overwrought peer pressure that characterized what is now a classic elitist adolescent movie is duplicated here in “American Psycho” ...

Director: Rich Moore Language: English Widespread obesity has given sugar a bad name in the U.S. But in Wreck-it Ralph, “Sugar Rush” is a video game, and you can’t get fat from those … right? Anyway, this Rich Moore-directed Disney production swoons with nostalgia ...

Swamp trash melodrama unfolds with stylish 1960s grittiness in “The Paperboy” and demonstrates Nicole Kidman’s ability to fashion herself into an angel fallen to Earth in the guise of a hooker. She plays Charlotte Bless, a peroxide blonde who makes no bones about having ...

Jeanne Moreau was a French superstar back in the day, but decades later, the now-octogenarian’s on-screen presence continues to be defined by a haze of ennui and ambivalence that she wraps around herself like a delicate shawl. Moreau’s appearance in “Une Estonienne a Paris” ...

Director: Gary Ross Language: English I picked up 1998 movie “Pleasantville” at my rental store the other day — what a blast from the past. It stars a young Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon as teenage twins in suburbia, USA, who get zapped into ...

Jack Black, whose career was built on getting deep inside the skin of his characters, arguably reaches the pinnacle of his performances as Bernie Tiede in “Bernie” — based on actual events that happened in small-town Texas 17 years ago. Directed by Richard Linklater ...

Based on real-life events in Carthage, Texas, “Bernie” showcases Jack Black’s uncanny powers of observation, and director Richard Linklater’s ability to lay on the cynicism so thick you hardly notice it. Black visited with the title character, Bernie Tiede, in prison to study his ...

When you think about the impact the Cold War had on spy films, it seems downright wrong that movies about North and South Korea are hardly ever made and when they are, they rarely reach multiplexes in the West. “The Berlin File” tackles the ...