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- 'Concussion' doesn't have enough to say about the national obsession with footballThe movie stars Will Smith as Dr. Bennett Omalu, a doctor who researched brain trauma in football players and pressured the National Football League.
- 'The Revenant': The ultra-violent catalogue of horrors is over-the-top'Revenant' stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a man who survived almost certain death in the Old West to avenge himself against the trapper who left him to die in the Rockies.
- 'Joy' is full of whiplash changes in mood'Joy' stars Jennifer Lawrence as Joy Mangano, who invented the Miracle Mop. The movie seems both overlong and truncated.
- 'Where to Invade Next' is kinder, gentler Michael MooreThe movie, which centers on Moore traveling to Europe and showing socio-political innovations there, is in many respects as dubious as most of his other film forays.
- 'Sisters' star Amy Poehler shares experiences from making the film with friend Tina Fey'Sisters' stars Poehler and Fey as siblings who decide to throw a party at their parents' house. The movie reunites Fey and Poehler after collaborations such as 'Mean Girls.'
- 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' box office: $250 million and counting'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' has sold $120 million worth of tickets in North America on Christmas weekend. Will it be the biggest movie ever?聽
- 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens': Just how big will it be at the box office?The anticipation for the new 'Star Wars' movie ran high prior to its debut. Can the film take down movies like 'Avatar' and 'Titanic' for all-time records?
- 'Star Wars' series joins growing trend of 'spin-off' moviesThe new 'Star Wars' movie 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' features familiar characters like Han Solo and Princess Leia. But the upcoming movie 'Rogue One' will center on all-new faces.
- The 10 best movies of 2015 鈥 our critic's picksMonitor film critic Peter Rainer selects the best films to come out this year. What made the final cut?
- 'Son of Saul' has powerful sequences but is too hypercontrolledThe Holocaust drama is directed by first-time Hungarian feature film director聽L谩szl贸聽Nemes and stars聽Geza Rohrig as a Jew imprisoned in聽Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens': The series brings multiple generations togetherSince the original movie came out in 1977, the movies have gained only more fans.聽
- With 'Force Awakens,' 'Star Wars' expands its universeThe resumption of George Lucas's space opera offers a shared cultural experience that transcends generations, gender, race, and politics. These days, that's rarer than water on Tatooine.
- 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' is the best movie in the series since 'Empire Strikes Back''Star Wars' stars newcomers to the series like Daisy Ridley and John Boyega as well as actors from previous movies like Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill.
- 'The Big Short' director Adam McKay: The financial crisis 'was more about a system than it was about individuals'McKay's movie 'Short' is the story of the real people who predicted the 2008 financial crisis. It's based on the book of the same name by Michael Lewis.
- 'In the Heart of the Sea' actor Chris Hemsworth discusses the new movie and playing Thor'Heart' stars Hemsworth as a first mate on a whaling ship whose craft is wrecked by a sperm whale. The film co-stars Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, and Tom Holland.
- 'In the Heart of the Sea' is serviceable but mostly unstirring'Sea' stars Chris Hemsworth and Benjamin Walker as sailors whose ship is destroyed by a whale. The remaining crewmen must struggle to survive.
- 'Boy & the World' is a wondermentThe plot may be a bit difficult to describe but the film, which is written and directed by Al锚 Abreu,聽is lovely, child's-eye fantasia.
- 'The Big Short' is entertaining but has a kid-glove attitude toward amorality'Short' stars Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, and others as a band of investors who anticipated the housing bubble and profited from the crash.
- 'Youth' actor Michael Caine looks back on his long career'Youth' stars Caine and Harvey Keitel as old friends convalescing in a Swiss Alps spa. Caine's turn is attracting Oscar buzz 鈥 if he was nominated, it would be his sixth, with the actor having won twice.
- 'Macbeth' actor Michael Fassbender shares how he got advice from his 'X-Men' co-star James McAvoyFassbender and McAvoy have starred in multiple 'X-Men' movies together and McAvoy had previously played Macbeth onstage. 'We discussed various things about the relationship (between聽Macbeth聽and his wife),' Fassbender said.