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My new e-book, "The 50 Movie Starter Kit," tells you the movies you need to know if you want to know what you're talking about. Only $2.99. Visit the Bookstore for further info or order your copy at Amazon or at Barnes and Noble.

Warp factor 2

"Star Trek Into Darkness"just has to convince us that 2009's "Star Trek" reboot wasn't a fluke, and that the reconstituted crew of the Starship Enterprise has the iconic heft to go the distance. That it does so -- expertly, exhilaratingly -- is a mark of J.J. Abrams's uncanny ease with modern Hollywood formulas. more...

Secrets and lies

Sarah Polley's "Stories We Tell" is a meta-documentary inquiry into her family's past that ingeniously widens in scope until director and audience stand at the edge of an abyss.more...

Cold case

Michael Shannon is descended from a long line of actors -- Cagney, DeNiro, Pacino -- primed to explode. In "The Iceman," the true story of a contract killer, one of Shannon's characters finally finds a way to turn that tension into a career trajectory.more...

Road kill

In "Sightseers," a vacationing couple finds love and murder. The thing about British serial killers in the movies is that they're so politemore...

Baz-zle dazzle

At its best -- which, sadly, isn't often enough -- Baz Luhrmann's version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is a scandal. It's also, in event and emotion (if not period fidelity), the most faithful movie version of the book to date. The two are not unconnected.more...

Sold American

"The Reluctant Fundamentalist" makes for queasy but worthy viewing less than a month after the Boston Marathon bombings...more...

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