Movie Review | 'The Tower'

Behind Closed Doors in Both Berlins

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Christian Schwochow’s dramas “The Tower” and “West” deal with paranoia in East and West Berlin for very different people in different decades.

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Movie Review | 'Jessabelle'

Scratch Baths From the Recovery Regimen

By BEN KENIGSBERG

In the horror movie “Jessabelle,” a woman returns to her childhood home to recover from a car accident and finds unsettling videotapes of her mother telling fortunes.

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Movie Review | 'Interstellar'

Off to the Stars, With Grief, Dread and Regret

By A. O. SCOTT

In Christopher Nolan’s science-fiction parable “Interstellar,” Earth is dying, and a team of astronauts searches the universe for a new home for the human race.

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Movie Review | 'National Gallery'

Framing the Viewers, and the Viewed

By MANOHLA DARGIS

“National Gallery,” a documentary, uses that London museum to expose the heart of the network of relationships connecting art, artists, institutions and the public.

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One Star, 2 Films and Conflict

By MICHAEL CIEPLY

A publicity scuffle over Jessica Chastain, who appears in both “Interstellar” and “A Most Violent Year,” exemplifies how actors and filmmakers occasionally face conflicts over overlapping films.

The Reporter as a Hero, Not a Joke

By DAVE ITZKOFF

With “Rosewater,” Jon Stewart directs a film about Maziar Bahari, a reporter imprisoned and tortured in 2009 in Iran shortly after the disputed election there.

Sadness Amid the Laughter

By DAVE ITZKOFF

The makers of the comedy “A Merry Friggin’ Christmas,” one of Robin Williams’s last movies, have found his death a delicate challenge.

Quick, Robin, to the Blu-ray Box!

By FRANK DeCARO

The campy 1960s TV series “Batman” has been restored and released on DVD and Blu-ray in a new boxed set.

Snapshot | Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Digging Deep Into an Alter Ego

Gugu Mbatha-Raw talks about preparing for her role as a hip-hop vixen teetering on the divide between superstardom and destruction in “Beyond the Lights.”

Stepping Into Eccentricity’s Darker Side

By DAVE ITZKOFF

Steve Carell, best known for comedic roles in “The Office” and the “Anchorman” movies, step into a dramatic role in “Foxcatcher.”

No More Ms. Nice Gal

By CARA BUCKLEY

The actress Reese Witherspoon has been playing against type in films like “Mud,” “The Good Lie,” “Inherent Vice” and “Wild.”

A Blizzard of Star Turns

By LOGAN HILL

Memorable performances this season include portraits of a British painter, a performer with a troubled domestic life, and two schoolboys in love.

Higher Learning in a Hybrid City

By MEKADO MURPHY

Don Hall and Chris Williams, the directors of “Big Hero Six,” and Paul Felix, its production designer, describe the film’s San Fransokyo Institute of Technology campus.

Hollywood Works to Maintain Its World Dominance

By MICHAEL CIEPLY

At the American Film Market, some in the business will be worrying about the subtle shifts away from their products in other countries.

Another Movie Means Another Crisis

By LORNE MANLY

With “A Most Violent Year,” the director J. C. Chandor is again looking at hard-won success and failure.

The Riddle Who Unlocked the Enigma

By CHARLES McGRATH

“The Imitation Game” tells the story of Alan Turing, the gay British mathematician and World War II code breaker who was convicted in 1952 on charges of indecency.

Quiet Bohemians, on a Cosmic Scale

By SARAH LYALL

The stars of “The Theory of Everything,” say they found playing Stephen Hawking and his first wife both fascinating and an enormous responsibility.

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Cookies, Games and Zuzu’s Petals

Compiled by MEKADO MURPHY and ERIK PIEPENBURG

Celebrities with upcoming movies offer their favorite holiday traditions at home, and on the big and the small screen.

Dash of Blu-rays With That Egg Nog?

By TERRENCE RAFFERTY

Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye” and “Thieves Like Us,” Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Wind Rises” and a 10-movie film noir set are new offerings on Blu-ray.

Holiday Movie Release Schedule

By ANITA GATES

Movies releasing in November and December of the holiday season.

The Exacting, Expansive Mind of Christopher Nolan

By GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS

With “Interstellar,” the director once again creates mass entertainment out of mind-bending fantasy.

Film

There Is Nothing Like a Dame

By ANDY WEBSTER

Jules Feiffer will be appearing at an event to promote his acclaimed graphic novel “Kill My Mother” and a screening of “The Big Sleep.”

Casting the Single-Player Movie Star

By CHRIS SUELLENTROP

Kevin Spacey, who plays Francis Underwood in the Netflix series “House of Cards,” portrays a nefarious defense contractor in the video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.