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'Suffragette': Actress Carey Mulligan is a fiercely intelligent performer'Suffragette' stars Mulligan as a factory worker who has her eyes opened to the possibility of rallying for her rights. The confrontations are uninspiringly rendered and the film's production values are stagey but director Sarah Gavron wisely keeps Mulligan front and center.
'Heart of a Dog' is a confounding, transfixing mélange'Heart' is directed by Laurie Anderson and centers on her late, beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle. The film is really a meditation on death and the ways in which we come to terms with it.
'Crimson Peak': The designers of the movie are the film's true stars'Crimson Peak' stars Mia Wasikowska as Edith Cushing, who marries Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) and goes to live with him and his sister (Jessica Chastain) in their unnerving house.
'Bridge of Spies': How theater actor Mark Rylance came to star in the Steven Spielberg filmRylance is arguably the most acclaimed stage actor in the world, but he may not be familiar to some moviegoers who go see 'Bridge.' 'Seldom has an actor been around for so many distinguished years on the stage and yet had not been fully discovered for the screen,' Spielberg said of Rylance.
'Bridge of Spies': The best aspect of the movie is the friendship between a lawyer and Soviet spy'Bridge of Spies' stars Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan, who becomes involved in a prisoner exchange during the Cold War. Mark Rylance and Amy Ryan co-star.
'Truth' is worth seeing for Cate Blanchett's firebrand performance'Truth' stars Robert Redford as Dan Rather and Blanchett as former CBS News producer Mary Mapes. It follows CBS News's reporting of then-President George W. Bush’s murkily documented Vietnam-era career in the Air National Guard.
'Beasts of No Nation' turns up the temperature too far on atrocities'Nation' stars Abraham Attah as a preteen boy who becomes a soldier in a rebel faction of an unnamed African country. The faction is led by Commandant (Idris Elba).
'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).
'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 malignance and corruption inherent in the war on drugs.
'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 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 Petit, who in 1974 walked back and forth across a cable strung between the twin towers of the World 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.
