“Insidious”
** 1/2 (out of 4)
One of the demons is wearing what looks like a Darth Maul Halloween mask. And the finale is too literal and too long and drawn out. But that doesn’t spoil what is the spookiest and most entertaining horror flick since “Paranormal Activity.” It’s a haunted-house tale in the “Poltergeist” mold — a child in jeopardy, a mother (Rose Byrne) struggling to get her head around it and a father (Patrick Wilson) in denial. James Wan graduates from the “torture-porn” genre he helped launch with “Saw.” It falls to Byrne to sell the reality of all this, and she does. Fun and full of jolts. PG-13. 1 hour, 42 minutes. Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel
“The Lincoln Lawyer”
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
How Matthew McConaughey got his groove back doesn’t matter. He’s back in agile form as Mick Haller in this purring, revving adaptation of Michael Connelly’s thriller about a defense attorney whose office is his Lincoln Town Car. When Haller graduates to a better class of client (Ryan Phillippe), he faces fresh doubts and a canny battle of wills. An ace cast with Marisa Tomei, William H. Macy and Michael Peña.R. 1 hour, 59 minutes. Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post
“Miral”
** (out of 4)
This film is divided into sections corresponding to characters: Hind, who starts a school for Palestinian orphans displaced by the creation of Israel in 1948; Nadia, an abused wife who runs away and becomes a belly dancer; and Nadia’s daughter, Miral, who is raised and radicalized at Hind’s school. PG-13. 1 hour, 40 minutes. Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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