Elle Fanning shines in Sally Potter’s ponderous story of two girls growing up in 1960s England
Review
Upside Down: Defying Gravity and Logic
A beguiling sci-fi vision gets torpedoed by the lifeless love story at its core
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone: Strange Magic
Even with a talented cast and some inspired moments up its sleeve, this Vegas-set comedy fails to impress
Spring Breakers: James Franco as the Wizard of Odd
Harmony Korine’s lurid Florida frolic gets its comedy juice from the fun the star has playing a crazed gangsta
Beyond the Hills: A Neorealist Exorcist
Grim and harrowing, this remarkable Romania film movie (about religious fervor and a troubled soul) isn’t easy to watch — but you shouldn’t miss it
Oz the Great and Powerful: Mostly, It’s Wicked Bad
Sam Raimi’s superproduction has a new Wizard, but it lacks the old magic
A Place at the Table: A Serving of Hard-to-Swallow Truths
From the company that made ‘Food, Inc.,’ an examination of how — and why — 50 million American men, women, and children go to bed sick and hungry
Stoker: Gloom with a View
Visual threat trumps explicit gore in ‘Oldboy’ director Park Chan-wook’s first American thriller
Jack the Giant Slayer: Fee-Fi, Ho-Hum
A new take on the Jack and the Beanstalk tale is heavy on special-effects, light on subtlety, and way too intense for kids
Snitch: The Rock in a Hard Place
Dwayne Johnson serious drama and falls flat. But it’s mostly his director’s fault.
Safe Haven: Something Borrowed, Something ‘Boo’
Julianne Hough plays the girl on the run in a pallid knock-off of ‘Sleeping with the Enemy’
A Good Day to Die Hard: Yippee-Ki-Yay, Mother Russia
Bruce Willis is back as John McClane, an indestructible cop on a noisy but bland mission to Moscow
Beautiful Creatures: The New Girl in Town
Don’t call this new movie—about a teenaged witch and the boy who loves her—the next Twilight. It’s much better.