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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...

Hollywood’s stalkerish obsession with the English aristocracy takes a peculiar new turn in this off-key, globetrotting action comedy. Johnny Depp plays the title character, a hereditary peer complete with a mansion near London, a manservant and a ...

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...

In little over three years and three features, writer-director J.C. Chandor has launched himself into the rare company of uncompromising filmmakers with more than superheroes on the brain. Margin Call (2011), filled with gloriously terse business ...