David F. Sandberg’s Annabelle: Creation is a haunted-house horror story that plays on our primeval fear of the dark.
Its greatest asset is an attention toward the particulars of its milieu in a way that doesn’t call attention to those period touches.
All of them have earned their right to be here, either by standing on the shoulders of giants or wildly impaling creatures of the night.
Miss Bala wears on its sleeve that its resilient heroine represents the Mexican body politic.
Miss Bala doesn’t sublimate Gerardo Naranjo’s strengths into a commercially viable package.
Nanny Moretti’s warm and affecting Habemus Papam couldn’t be farther from Miss Bala in style.