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'Steve Jobs': Why writer Aaron Sorkin avoided the usual biopic format'Jobs' was adapted by Sorkin from the biography of the same name by Walter Isaacson. The film stars Michael Fassbender as the Apple co-founder and Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, one of Jobs' co-workers.
'Pan': What's different in the origin story of the boy who wouldn't grow up'Pan' stars Levi Miller in the title role and is a prequel to the story we know, with Peter arriving in Neverland for the first time, learning to fly, and facing off with the pirate Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman).聽
'Steve Jobs' is an old-school movie in new-style camouflageMost of the movie starring Michael Fassbender as the tech guru is brainy, high-speed entertainment. The film is directed by Danny Boyle of 'Slumdog Millionaire.'
'Sicario': The deeply compelling film succeeds on every levelThe film about the billion-dollar drug trade along the U.S.-Mexico border is a grisly, disturbing portrait of the聽malignance and corruption inherent in the war on drugs.聽
'The Walk': How Robert Zemeckis recreated Philippe Petit's World Trade Center walk for the big screen'The Walk' stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit, who hoisted a wire between the just-completed Twin Towers and walked between them. The movie depiction of the stunt comes with聽the vertigo-inducing 3-D sensation of being 110 stories in the air.
'The Martian' is entertaining but lacks awe'The Martian' stars Matt Damon as astronaut Mark Watney, who becomes stranded on Mars after his crewmates accidentally abandon him. It's directed by science fiction legend Ridley Scott.
'Freeheld' is ponderous but Michael Shannon is a standoutShannon gives a performance of great subtlety and depth as a police officer whose longtime partner, Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore), tries to sign over her pension benefits to her much younger life partner.
'The Martian': A look at the hopeful messages of recent sci-fi movies'The Martian' stars Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars. The film's mostly positive view of humanity echoes themes of recent sci-fi hit films 'Interstellar' and 'Gravity.'
Abigail Disney to receive Courage in Journalism AwardAbigail Disney has produced dozens of socially conscious documentaries
'The Walk': The film does nothing to analyze Philippe Petit's psycheThe film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as聽Petit, who in 1974 walked聽back and forth across a cable strung between the twin towers of the World聽Trade Center.
'Stonewall' is a problematic collection of stereotypesThe movie directed by Roland Emmerich, director of such blockbusters as '2012,' lacks the galvanizing power of such recent movies as 'Selma' or 'Milk.'
'The Intern': The film is pleasant but has no big conflictRobert De Niro stars in the movie as a retiree who becomes an intern at an online retail start-up, while Anne Hathaway is his younger boss.
'Becoming Bulletproof' is haphazard but movingThe film follows an annual event in which aspiring performers with disabilities act out a scripted feature film.
'Labyrinth of Lies' is stiff but examines a historically neglected subject'Lies' is conventional but its story of how the 1963-1965 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials had Germans prosecuting Germans is an important one.
'Maze Runner: Scorch Trials' lacks originality and urgencyThe first 'Maze' film proved it could compete for the same audience as the 'Hunger Games' and 'Divergent' films, but the second movie is undercut by overly familiar characterizations.
'Black Mass': Johnny Depp shares how he chose to portray James 'Whitey' BulgerDepp stars as Bulger in the new film by Scott Cooper, which is now in theaters. The film also includes appearances by actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Edgerton, and Dakota Johnson.
'Black Mass': Johnny Depp holds the screen as pure malevolenceThe film doesn't delve very deeply into James 'Whitey' Bulger's psyche but co-star Joel Edgerton is especially good, as is Benedict Cumberbatch as Bulger's brother William Bulger.
Toronto Film Festival 2015: Actors in 'The Danish Girl,' 'Legend' are better than their moviesEddie Redmayne and Tom Hardy outshine their films with 'Danish' and 'Legend,' respectively, while other highlights included the movies 'Anomalisa,' a stop-motion animated film co-directed and written by Charlie Kaufman, and the movie 'Rams,' about two rival sheep farmers in a remote Icelandic village.
What is the meaning of life? 'Human' documentary digs for an answerFeaturing interviews with more than 2,000 people in 60 countries, 'Human' premiered at the UN Saturday and was released on YouTube.聽
'Pawn Sacrifice': The real story overwhelms its dramatization'Pawn' stars Tobey Maguire and Liev Schreiber聽as chess players Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. Maguire overdoes his performance, but Schreiber is more effective.
