“Novitiate”: A young nun’s tale of disillusionment and self-discovery
Two and one-half stars. Rated R. 123 minutes.
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14 movies worth seeing this holiday season – and none about Santa Claus
There are holiday movies, and then there are holiday movies.
“All I See Is You”: A thriller with more marital melodrama than mystery
The thriller-ish premise of "All I See Is You" sounds familiar enough: A woman, blind since a childhood accident that killed her parents, undergoes surgery to restore sight in one...
“The Killing of a Sacred Deer” is a morality tale that will leave you shaken
"The Killing of a Sacred Deer" is, as you might expect from the reunion of actor Colin Farrell and filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, Farrell's director in "The Lobster," a strange, wonderful,...
“The King’s Choice”: A minute-by-minute account of Norway’s entry into World War II
"The King's Choice" looks, with a microscope, at those first couple of days of the Nazi occupation of Norway, skirmishing and confusion.
Move review: This Lego movie doesn’t really 铿乼 in
Unlike the first two Lego films, which tapped into widely accessible universes, "Ninjago" demands a familiarity, not with any recognized cultural touchstone, but with a relatively obscure -- and prefab...
“American Assassin”: A killing machine riding the conveyor belt through an action factory
It's possible that Dylan O'Brien may someday grow into the role of Mitch Rapp -- the dangerously lethal terrorist-hunter hero of the late Vince Flynn's popular series of pulpy spy...
“Polina” tells a pretty story — about a ballerina who learns to be more than pretty
Unrated. In Russian and French with subtitles. 112 minutes.
“Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World” listens for the beat of Indian drums — and guitars
Like the 2013 music documentary "Muscle Shoals," which posited a poetic connection between hit songs and water -- in that case, the Tennessee River and the Fame recording studio of...
Social-media satire “Ingrid Goes West” draws laughs, not blood
鈥淚ngrid Goes West鈥� is a deceptively superficial comedy with unusual emotional depth.