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Mixing emotion and action, Heart of the Beast casts Brad Pitt as a retired special forces soldier who becomes stranded in the Alaskan wilds after his seaplane crashes.

Forgotten Island, DreamWorks latest animated feature, operates at peak creative levels, offering a parade of vividly colored, fantastical creatures that pop off the screen, often with boosts of comic energy.

Robert Pattinson plays TV personality Chris Hansen in Primetime, a movie built around Hansen's To Catch a Predator, an NBC Dateline segment that ran through 2007.

Haru (Rinko Kikuchi) and her Mexican husband Luis (Alejandro Edda) love ballroom dancing.

Eighteen-year-old Arsa lives alone on a sparsely populated island off the coast of Sicily.

Zach Cregger, the director of such respected horror films as Weapons and Barbarians, has grabbed the Resident Evil reins.

The Weight begs comparison to the Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1953 French classic Wages of Fear, remade in 1977 as Sorcerer by director William Friedkin.

Korean director Na Hong-jin's Hope plays with a variety of genres, putting a heavy emphasis on action.

A well-matched Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman don't miss much of a beat as they revisit their performances in Practical Magic 2, a sequel to 1998’s Practical Magic, an adaptation of a novel by Alice Hoffman.

Now and again, a pop cultural phenomenon breaks boundaries with an energy so furious, it can be mistaken for outrage.

Virginia Woolf's 1919 novel, Night & Day, has been brought to the screen by director Tina Gharavi, who benefits greatly from actress Haley Bennett's spirited performance as a woman who’s ahead of her time.

Judging by movies, it’s almost impossible to believe there’s anything left to blow up.

In Mayday, Ryan Reynolds plays a Navy pilot shot down while flying a spy mission at the height of the Cold War.

Someone once told me that the two key questions people most ask about movies are 1) Who’s in it?

In It Ends, director Alexander Ullom gives the road-movie genre a mind-bending twist.

Not every formula movie can be counted a failure.

We’ve had so much post-apocalyptic “entertainment" that it now qualifies as a pop-cultural obsession, if not an addiction.

Director Agnieszka Holland subverts traditional biopic structure in Franz, a fragmented look at the life of Franz Kafka, the Czech author who died in 1924.

The Rivals of Amziah King The Rivals of Amziah King stars Matthew McConaughey as a country singer and beekeeper who turns a Native American woman into a devoted protege.

Willem Dafoe plays a Greek shipping magnate in The Birthday Party, another barbed critique of life among the obscenely rich.

Put Jeff Daniels, Jared Harris, and J.K.

Remember the horror series Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma?

Advanced publicity for The End of Oak Street blames a mysterious cosmic event for transporting a typical American suburban neighborhood to a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

It's not unusual for a family to go through a crisis.

Boasting a blatantly contrived high-concept premise, One Night Only is better than it ought to be.

Eli Roth has directed notable horror movies, among them Cabin Fever (2002) and Hostel (2005).

In the summer of 1975, a callow 19-year-old from New Jersey traveled to Provincetown, Mass., a certified mecca of free-style living.

When a movie entitled The Samurai and the Prisoner arrives, it's fair to expect ample swordplay.

As far as Spider-Man is concerned, the world has amnesia.

The loss of a child is serious business, but director Hirokazu Kore-eda treats the subject gently in Sheep in the Box, a fable bolstered by a touch of sci-fi.

The Dink, a movie about a former tennis wiz reduced to playing pickleball, is a cheerfully bland comedy about a game that has swept the country.

Erika Tracy is a Los Angeles art star.