The performances of Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson redeem a Rust Belt drama that moseys toward violence
Review
American Hustle: Sex, Scandal and Flat-Out Fun
Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence form a fabulous ensemble cast in David O. Russell’s dramatic comedy about the Abscam scandal
The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis: Folk You
A prickly musician seizes center screen in this evocation of the Greenwich Village music scene just before Bob Dylan changed everything
Spike Lee’s Oldboy: Remaking a Sick Classic
New viewers may feel the sick thrill of revelation, while fans of the Korean original will find little new
Frozen: This Disney Princess Movie Is Thaw-some
An animated feature for all seasons: “The Snow Queen” springs to life in this winter-wonderland musical that dreams of summer and never falls
Catching Fire: Slow Burn With a Sizzling Star
The endlessly watchable Jennifer Lawrence is the main reason to see this middle-child movie in the ‘Hunger Games’ franchise
Judi Dench in Philomena: The Mother Who Never Gave Up
Dench and Steve Coogan bring warmth and wit to the true story of a woman who searched for her stolen child
The Great Beauty: Sorrentino’s La Dolce Vita 2.0
This fresco of Rome’s high and low society is the year’s grandest, most exhilarating foreign film
The Book Thief: The Girl Who Fought the Nazis With Words
An honorable adaptation of the Markus Zuzak best-seller proves that passion is what’s lost in translation
Thor: The Dark World: A God-Awful Villain Steals the Thunder
The Marvel saga soldiers on, with a sturdy, starchy hero and his maleficent adoptive brother
Ender’s Game: Is This Boy ‘The One’?
The ‘unfilmable’ novel is now a movie. And like its hero, it is cool, wary and bright.
Free Birds: A Thanksgiving Turkey, Neither Rare Nor Well-Done
Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson provide the voices of two time travelers to the first Thanksgiving
Dallas Buyers Club: He Hated Gays, Got AIDS and Saved Lives
Matthew McConaughey punished himself to give a grittily truthful performance as a down-home tragic hero