Director Wong Kar Wai, who also wrote the screenplay, melds romance and martial-arts fighting into this lush and lyrical re-creation of a neglected era of recent Chinese history. After the 1930s-era grandmaster (Tony Leung) of the southern style of kung fu — Bruce Lee’s future teacher — defeats the leading proponent (Wang Qingxiang) of the […]

Dopey horror sequel, based on a series of video games, in which a teen girl (Adelaide Clemens) and her widowed father (Sean Bean) are pestered by demons who reside in the titular ghost town. When Dad disappears, our heroine gains the aid of an admiring school chum (Kit Harington) as she journeys to the haunted […]

Engaging political documentary in which filmmakers Dinesh D’Souza and John Sullivan set out to answer the question, “What does Barack Obama believe?” In bringing his 2010 best-seller “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” to the screen, right-leaning scholar D’Souza, who also narrates, uses the 44th president’s own memoir as his starting point for a globetrotting journey […]

Directed and co-written by Oliver Stone from the 2010 novel by Don Winslow, this vicious, blood-soaked saga of drug lords glorifies primal urges, vulgarity and man’s inhumanity toward man. Two friends (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch) and their shared lover (Blake Lively) run a successful business growing the best marijuana in North America. When a […]

The latest take on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, directed by newcomer Rupert Sanders, is a classic good-vs.-evil fable with splashes of gothic horror and extreme violence, but some welcome religious imagery. Snow White (Kristen Stewart), the “Fairest One of All,” is imprisoned by her stepmother, the wicked queen (Charlize Theron). The princess escapes, joins […]