Review: Private Life

Tamara Jenkins never musters the effort to expand the scope of her narrative, opting to make a film strikingly similar to The Savages.

Review: Jim & Andy

The film is about the idea of Andy Kaufman, about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive.

Review: Morgan

Morgan’s makers lose trust in the intellectual heft of their material and chose to prioritize empty sensation instead.

Review: The Phenom

The film shows that formula can be repurposed to serve empathetic ends without losing its self-actualizing appeal.

Review: Love & Mercy

The film’s script, by Oren Moverman and Michael A. Lerner, is slavishly adherent to biopic formula and clunky affirmations of Brian Wilson’s legacy.

Review: The Congress

As executed by writer-director Ari Folman, the concept is tidy, superficially clever, and almost defiantly irrelevant.

Review: Saving Mr. Banks

A tale of memory and redemption that does little to linger in the mind and even less to decry P.L. Travers’s claim that Disney turns everything it touches into schmaltz.

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