The King of HBO drama hits a flat note in his evocation of the Jersey ’60s. Good thing he brought James Gandolfini along for the trip.
Review
Apatow’s This Is 40: Way Too Many Scenes From a Marriage
Writer-director Judd Apatow’s meandering “sort-of” sequel to Knocked Up starts strong and funny but falls flat in its second hour
Amour: A Love Story for the Aged
Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant are incandescent in Michael Haneke’s fable of immortal devotion
The Guilt Trip: The Return of the Funny Lady
Streisand hits the road with Seth Rogen in a charming holiday movie about mothers and sons
Jack Reacher: Tom Cruise Picks the Wrong Week for a Thriller About a Mass Killing
The star’s new crime drama gets undermined by the suddenly dour pre-Christmas mood—and by not being a very good movie
Save the Date: Everyone Loves Lizzy Caplan (Including Us)
An amiable romantic comedy starring Lizzy Caplan and Martin Starr goes up against The Hobbit. We feel sorry for it
Django Unchained: Tarantino Frees the Slaves
Jamie Foxx is the scourge of antebellum racists, and Christoph Waltz his wily mentor, in QT’s latest provocation
Les Misérables: The YouTube Version
For all its stirring moments, Tom Hooper’s film of the blockbuster musical spends too much time shouting at you in closeup
Hyde Park on Hudson: FDR, His Mistresses and the King
Bill Murray is fine, but all else dreadful, in a drama about that charming lecher in the White House
Deadfall: Blood on the Snow
Eric Bana is the killer, and Olvia Wilde his sister, in this schizophrenic crime drama/love story
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas: Ed Burns Pulls Together Another Dysfunctional Irish-Catholic Brood
The gang of usual suspects, from the wonderful Connie Britton to Michael McGlone, is all back in this amiable but uninspired ensemble comedy
The Hobbit: Why Go There and Back Again?
Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth is just like the Tolkien tale: many marvels and a whole lot of trudging
Dragon: The One-Armed Swordsman With a Heart
Martial-arts icon Donnie Yen stars in this thrilling story of a family man with killer moves
