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Anyone with fond memories of the books or a dusty Paddington bear sitting on a shelf in their childhood bedroom can rest easy—this first-ever movie take on Peru’s furriest export is a cuddly, thoughtful triumph. But not too cuddly: The beauty of t...

Hidden codes, secret meanings and mixed messages pulse through the reliable, old-fashioned, buzzing copper wires of true-life period drama The Imitation Game. Snappy and not too solemn, but perhaps not as much of a psychological puzzle as it could...

When the dismal Taken 2 became France’s biggest-ever global hit, a third instalment was inevitable. The only question was: Would writer-producer Luc Besson and director Olivier Megaton be happy just to coast along, offering audiences another brain...

What’s in the woods? A-listers dressed like Game of Thrones extras, belting out show tunes. Into the Woods, the 1987 fairy-tale mash-up musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, has fallen under Disney’s spell, getting the lavish big-screen tr...

Do we dare watch Ava DuVernay’s civil-rights drama as a mere piece of historical re-creation (expert though it is), and not as a newscast of what’s happening right now? There’s nothing “finished” about the issue of American racism and fittingly, S...

The gods of cyberwar have been busy of late, dislodging a steady stream of Hollywood gossip and spinelessness that could choke a horse prone to bitchy emails. Apparently, though, this hacking stuff is serious: Stumbling into a timeliness that’s no...

Just as only Nixon could go to China, only Clint Eastwood could make a movie about an Iraq War veteran and infuse it with doubts, mission anxiety and ruination. American Sniper is a superbly subtle critique made by an especially young 84-year-old....