Ron Howard reached another level of filmmaking with this recreation of the nearly disastrous 1970 NASA mission to the moon. When an explosion on board Apollo 13 causes the crew to lose oxygen, power and guidance, they suddenly have only one objective: to return to Earth alive. Howard brings such a detailed intensity to the

From Japanese director Mikio Naruse, this melodrama is a sleek and handsome precursor to Memoirs of a Geisha. A thirtysomething “hostess” (Hideko Takamine) in the Ginza bar district is at a crossroads: should she accept a marriage offer from one of her suitors or buy a bar of her own? Takamine is a bit of

This adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan stars Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson in roles that beg to be flip-flopped. Hunt plays Mrs. Erlynne, a serial seducer of other women’s husbands in the 1930s, while Johansson plays Meg Windermere, a naive newlywed whose groom is in danger of become Mrs. Erlynne’s next target. Hunt

There’s a constant low rumble throughout The Grey Zone – a sobering drama about the Sonderkommando, teams of Jewish prisoners who helped the Nazis usher new arrivals into the gas chambers in exchange for better living conditions – and at first you assume the noise is coming from the constantly burning crematoriums located underground. Then