Drama Rated PG-13
“…a thundering spiritual experience.”
Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
Based on the Marvel comic-book series that was tellingly launched during the civil-rights movement, X-Men has all the action and costuming a comic property requires, but it’s most interesting as an allegory about discrimination and intolerance. When super-powered mutants begin to appear and the United States government moves to control them, Magneto (Ian McKellen) calls
Family Rated PG
"…has so many CGI penguins that we might as well be watching the latest version of Angry Birds."
“…a movie that lets its nerd flag fly.
“This is twice now that Marvel Studios has made me care for a comic-book figure who initially struck me as dopey.
“The puppet works.
Comedy Rated R
“…expresses a deep ambivalence toward marriage, one that runs counter to the fanatical, starry-eyed nature of most romantic comedies.
“…part action flick and part vaudeville act, On Stranger Tides suggests a pirate movie made by Buster Keaton.
Drama Rated R
Social upheaval has rarely looked so congenial. Made in Dagenham chronicles the 1968 struggle of female Ford employees at a British factory to earn the same pay as their male counterparts, but it does so in a tidy, cute-Brit way that undersells what must have been a harsh, hard-fought victory. All the anger has been
“…like the sci-fi flick Alfred Hitchcock never made.
