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- 'Birdman' wavers tonally and embraces self-actualization cliches'Birdman' stars Michael Keaton as a washed-up actor best known for playing a superhero who's now trying to seek redemption on Broadway.
- 'Justice League,' 'Lego,' 'Fantastic Beasts' movies coming from Warner Bros.The film 'Justice League Part One' is set for a 2017 release, while 'The Lego Movie 2' will come out in 2018. The 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' film series is set to debut in 2016 and release new movies over the next several years.
- 'Kill the Messenger' star Jeremy Renner delivers a memorable performanceRenner stars as San Joe Mercury News reporter Gary Webb, whose series claiming the CIA-backed contras fighting the Sandanista government made money smuggling drugs with the CIA's knowledge was attacked by other papers.
- 'The Judge': The plot offers no surprises'The Judge' stars Robert Downey Jr. as a lawyer who defends his estranged father in a possible manslaughter rap.聽
- 'Whiplash': An instructor's 'tough love' is more disturbing than anythingThe drama in which drumming prodigy Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller) faces off against J.K. Simmons' instructor Terence Fletcher brings up the question of why Terence wasn't brought up on charges long ago.
- 'St. Vincent': The movie presses all the buttons for tears'St. Vincent' stars Bill Murray as a hard-drinking, hard-gambling lout who becomes a mentor to a 12-year-old boy who lives next door.聽
- 'The Judge' actor Robert Downey Jr. shares why his movie is different from other legal dramas"I've done lawyers before and it's like, 'Dude, really? Courtrooms? So boring," Downey said of the genre. The actor also stars as Iron Man in the Marvel franchise and has recently played the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes.
- 'Gone Girl': Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike on what attracted them to their parts'It's about what women ask of men and men ask of women, and in the way we kind of show one another half of ourselves and not the whole self,' Affleck said of the marriage between his character, Nick, and Nick's wife Amy (Pike) in the film.
- 'The Blue Room' is an art film wannabe'Blue' stars director and co-writer Mathieu Amalric and St茅phanie Cl茅au in what聽could have been a taut little thriller.
- 'Gone Girl': The movie doesn't move beyond the formulaic'Gone Girl' stars Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, who comes under suspicion for murder when his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) disappears.
- 'Keep on Keepin' On' focuses on life in music and the joy it can bring'Keep' centers on jazz legend Clark Terry and pianist Justin Kauflin and their musical collaborations are a beautiful thing to see.
- 'The Decent One': The documentary about Heinrich Himmler is excruciatingDirector Vanessa Lapa uses a cache of hundreds of Himmler's and his family's personal papers and rare footage to examine the question of how seemingly 'normal' people can perpetrate the worst human atrocities.
- 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' sequel will debut on Netflix and IMAXThe new movie will be Netflix's first feature film. The sequel is being directed by martial arts choreographer聽Yuen Wo-Ping and will reportedly debut in August 2015.
- 'The Equalizer' wins the weekend box officeThe thriller starring Denzel Washington topped the box office with $35 million, while last week's box office champion 'The Maze Runner,' which is based on a young adult dystopian novel, placed second with $17.5 million.聽
- 'The Two Faces of January': The noir movie has an unsettling plotDirector Hossein Amini understands dread is a dish best served slow.
- 'I Am Eleven': The documentary is a paean to an innocent age'Eleven' is an enjoyable mishmash of young voices and faces poised between childhood and teenagerdom.
- 'The Boxtrolls' is charming but story-challengedThe movie's grubby Victorian designs can be a little suffocating and the story's structure is off, but 'The Boxtrolls' includes good voice work by Ben Kingsley and, as with other Laika-produced movies, the touch of darkness in the movie is welcome.
- 'The Equalizer': The hero's invincibility becomes a little silly'The Equalizer' stars Denzel Washington in a powerful performance as a former George W. Bush-era intelligence operative who now lives a quiet life until he takes a paternal interest in an abused teenage prostitute.
- 'Gone Girl,' 'Inherent Vice' will debut at New York Film FestivalThe Edward Snowden documentary 'Citizenfour' and Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi's documentary 'The 50 Year Argument' will also be screened at the festival. The New York Film Festival begins on Sept. 26.
- Andre Benjamin shares how he identified with Jimi Hendrix for biopicBenjamin portrays Hendrix in the movie 'Jimi: All Is By My Side' and says he recognized the journey Hendrix went through trying to gain confidence onstage. 'I had to grow into being an entertainer and聽Jimi had to grow into being an entertainer, too,' the Outkast member said.