Audiences got pissy about last year’s Mockingjay – Part 1, the third film in the Hunger Games franchise. They rightly felt gamed by a blatant cash grab that took the last book in Suzanne Collins’ bestselling young-adult trilogy and carved out two movies when a single would have done. Part… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

It’s the early 1950s, and Manhattan shopgirl Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) is on the phone with Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett), a married socialite who arouses feelings shy Therese can’t articulate. “Ask me things,” says Carol. And the way Blanchett, an actress of sublime beauty and brilliance, caresses the word “things,”… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Tom Hardy can act the hell out of any role, from subtle to blow-the-roof-off. In Legend, Hardy gets to do both, and all stops in between. It helps that he’s playing identical twins. And what twins. Ronald and Reginald Kray were the gangster lords of London during the 1960s. Reggie,… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Some movies are so good and true and tough-to-the-core they should just sneak up on you. James White is one of them. I can tell you a few things: That Christopher Abbott is dynamite as the title character, a twentysomething Manhattan slacker with aspirations to be a journalist. Parties, booze,… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Writer-director Angelina Jolie’s attempt to emulate European art cinema is a slow, sodden, stupefyingly dull take on a 1970s marriage gone bad. Jolie plays Nessa, and her husband, Brad Pitt, is Nessa’s husband, Roland. The Pitts, it must be said, suffer gorgeously. Vacationing at a swank hotel in Malta, they… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

You wouldn’t believe it if it didn’t happen. In 2010, 33 Chilean miners found themselves trapped for 69 days in a gold and copper mine while the world bit its collective nails. Hollywood never has a good time trying to trump fact with the demands of popcorn-filmmaking. And The 33,… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

There’s no higher compliment to pay this steadily riveting, quietly devastating take on investigative journalism than to say Spotlight gets it right. So did the Spotlight team on The Boston Globe when, in 2002, it published nearly 600 articles on child sex-abuse allegations against Catholic priests and the church cover-ups… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

A Hollywood screenwriter goes broke fighting for his principles. Sounds like a biopic slog, and sometimes it is. Luckily, Trumbo has a powerhouse Bryan Cranston to light a fire under the moldier clichés in John McNamara’s script. Cranston plays the hell out of Dalton Trumbo, who got rich writing movies in… Source: Rolling […]

There will be bigger, wilder, weightier movies this year, but none lovelier than Brooklyn. I relished every moonstruck minute of it. The astonishing Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, Hanna) lights up the screen in a performance that takes a piece of your heart. Set in 1952, the film examines the immigrant experience… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

If there is such a thing as “James Bond’s Greatest Hits,” then Spectre is it. The 25th movie about the British MI6 agent with a license to kill is party time for Bond fans, a fierce, funny, gorgeously produced valentine to the longest-running franchise in movies. Bond freaks will be… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]