As he did with 2010's "Inception" and "Interstellar" (2014), writer-director Christopher Nolan serves up a cerebral thriller, a blockbuster accompanied by a heavy-handed science lesson — in this case about temporal mechanics and the possibility of time travel.

Of the numerous film adaptations of Charles Dickens' autobiographical 1850 novel, this may rank as the happiest. As directed by Armando Ianucci, who adapted the screenplay with Simon Blackwell, the movie finds Copperfield (Ranveer Jaiswal and Jairaj Varsani as a boy, Dev Patel as a man) facing life's challenges, which include child labor, rocky romances, financial instability and duplicitous colleagues, with a hero's grace and the joy of a secular saint. 

This 13th and officially final installment of the "X-Men" film series is an unsatisfying conclusion to the once-mighty franchise, a dreary, derivative and gratuitous horror thriller, based on a set of Marvel Comics, directed and co-written by Josh Boone. 

Wretched British comedy, set in the highlands of Scotland, in which three habitually misbehaving Glasgow teens (Viraj Juneja, Lewis Gribben and Rian Gordon) are signed up, against their will, to participate in the real-life Duke of Edinburgh's Award program designed, in part, to expose young city dwellers to the glories of the wilderness. 

Nearly three decades on from their second teen adventure, the two amiable, time-traveling, now middle-aged knuckleheads of the title (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) are frustrated by their ongoing inability to fulfill a prophecy that they would someday write a song that would unite the world. But the stakes involved in their failure to do so are drastically increased when they learn that, unless they complete the ditty before a looming deadline, all time and space will collapse. 

To spare her father (Tzi Ma), a partially disabled veteran, from having to serve again, the teen girl of the title (Yifei Liu) disguises herself as a young man and answers the Emperor of China's (Jet Li) summons to take up arms against an invasion force (led by Jason Scott Lee) aided in their attacks by a shape-shifting witch (Gong Li).