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New Directors/New Films 2014
Review: Veronica Mars
Q&A: Exposed's Beth B
Review: Teenage
10 essential Wes Anderson moments

New Directors/New Films 2014

Feast on cutting-edge work from around the world
Review: Veronica Mars

She's back, in a Kickstarter-funded update mainly for fans
Q&A: Exposed's Beth B

A key figure of the No Wave underground returns with her take on the alt-burlesque world.
Review: Teenage

An in-between time gets tender treatment in a new documentary
10 essential Wes Anderson moments

Watch the sequences that define the filmmaker’s cozy yet complex worldview

New movie reviews: Critics' picks

Teenage

Rated as: 4/5
Critics choice

Have a heart for the in-betweeners, a group whose historical exploitation is analyzed in a doc full of empathy and surprising factoids.

Le Week-End

Rated as: 4/5
Critics choice

A strained 30-year marriage finds reinvigoration—and unflinching honesty—via a Paris getaway and two mighty performances.

Exposed

Rated as: 4/5
Critics choice

Go beneath the pasties and feathers in this intelligent profile of NYC’s burlesque scene, peopled with curvy dreamers seizing self-respect.

Particle Fever

Rated as: 5/5
Critics choice

If understanding the Higgs boson (or “God particle”) filled you with a dog-ate-my-homework anxiety, this lucid documentary will floor you.

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New movie releases

Need for Speed

Rated as: 2/5

No, Aaron Paul, lowering your voice like Vin Diesel doesn’t make you an action hero.

Veronica Mars

Rated as: 3/5

Rejoice, Marshmallows: Your favorite sardonic private eye is back, grown from surly adolescence into hardened adulthood.

Enemy

Rated as: 3/5

All the way back to Donnie Darko, Jake Gyllenhaal has had an inchoate sense of evolution about him, a tricky quality that better actors can’t pull off half as well.

Bad Words

Rated as: 3/5

Jason Bateman plays right to his secret strengths as Guy, a bitter 40-year-old schemer who enters a national spelling bee by exploiting a loophole.

The Art of the Steal

Rated as: 2/5

In this well-cast but tedious heist comedy, Kurt Russell plays an ex-con tempted by the proverbial One Last Job.

On My Way

Rated as: 3/5

This lightweight, pleasingly low-key drama has a bit more narrative incident than Catherine Deneuve driving around the French countryside—but not much.