Now, the Final Chapter. O.K., Half of It.
By ROBERT ITO
The “Hunger Games” franchise, as did the Harry Potter and “Twilight” series, hopes to demonstrate the art in splitting a final chapter into two installments.
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Steve Carell in "Foxcatcher."
Starring Steve Carell and Channing Tatum, “Foxcatcher,” directed by Bennett Miller, tells the true-crime story of an Olympic wrestler and his multimillionaire sponsor.
Just After Lake Placid, Things Improved
By A. O. SCOTT
Sony Pictures Classics
Members of the Soviet Red Army.
Gabe Polsky’s documentary, “Red Army,” follows Soviet hockey stars from Olympic glory days to a second act with the National Hockey League.
Taking a Fan’s-Eye View of a Much-Loved Band
By STACEY ANDERSON
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Jarvis Cocker in the documentary “Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets.”
“Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets,” a documentary by Florian Habicht, looks at the band Pulp through the eyes of its fans.
News & Features
Images That Dare You to Turn Away
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
In the DOC NYC nonfiction film festival, honesty and truthfulness are often in conflict with painful images on which people would rather not dwell.
Coloring Real Life With Animation
By MEKADO MURPHY
Animation is an important component in three recent documentaries, and their directors explain why they used that device.
The Shadow in the Chador
By ROBERT ITO
Ana Lily Amirpour creates an Iranian town in California oil country for her vampire film, “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.”
Down-Home American Psychopaths
By J. HOBERMAN
Tales of Southern-style lawbreaking are examined in two movies from 1970 out on disc: Roger Corman’s “Bloody Mama” and Richard Quine’s “The Moonshine War.”
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.
Disney Film Boss Alan Horn Finds Success After Ouster by Warner
By BROOKS BARNES
As chairman, Alan F. Horn has helped turn Walt Disney Studios into a highly successful movie operation, making a record $1.55 billion profit.
A Window Beyond the Western
By ROSLYN SULCAS
Tommy Lee Jones discusses his new film, “The Homesman,” and five films that have personal significance for him.
Stoic Souls, Gliding as One
By CHARLES McGRATH
“Red Army” traces the rise and fall of the Soviet hockey team of the 1970s and ’80s, whose grace and skill were unmatched, even as the players chafed at restrictions.
On Video
War in the Field and in Cyberspace
By J. HOBERMAN
“Level Five” examines the Battle of Okinawa in the Computer Age; “Verdun, Looking at History” recreated a battle with some of its survivors.
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.”
Film
A Nazi-Era Diva as Victimized Relic
By RACHEL SALTZ
“Light and shadow, the two secrets of motion pictures,” the faded film star tells her companion in “Veronika Voss.”
Movie Reviews
Movie Review 'Big Hero 6'
Happiness Is a Warm Robot
By MANOHLA DARGIS
In the animated “Big Hero 6,” a tech-nerd protagonist rises to a challenge with the help of his friends and a doughy robot when evil threatens their metropolis.
Movie Review 'The Theory of Everything'
Marriage Is Hard, Physics Is Easy
By A. O. SCOTT
Eddie Redmayne stars in James Marsh’s “The Theory of Everything,” a biographical drama about Stephen Hawking’s health, marriage and other struggles.
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.
Movie Review 'Actress'
Reality, or Artful Dodge?
By A. O. SCOTT
Brandy Burre stars as herself in “Actress,” a movie about her own life raising children in the Hudson Valley and yearning to reclaim her acting career.
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.
Movie Review 'The Better Angels'
Lincoln, the Beardless, Ethereal Youth
By MANOHLA DARGIS
In “The Better Angels,” written and directed by A. J. Edwards, Abraham Lincoln spends his boyhood in a rural Indiana paradise.
Movie Review 'Elsa & Fred'
Love, Not Young, but New and Invigorating
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Circumstances bring together two seemingly mismatched characters in the romantic comedy “Elsa & Fred.”
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.
Movie Review 'Fugly'
Humiliations on the Road From Boy to Man
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“Fugly!,” John Leguizamo’s bittersweet new comedy, mixes narrative and stand-up comedy, embellished with clever animation by Bill Plympton.
Movie Review 'Virunga'
Gorillas in the Midst of a Battle Over Oil
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
In “Virunga,” a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo with rare mountain gorillas is a battleground over oil drilling and conservation.
Movie Review 'The Way He Looks'
Matters of the (Young) Heart
By ANDY WEBSTER
A young man who happens to be blind begins to indulge his independence and understand his sexuality in “The Way He Looks.”
Movie Review 'Pelican Dreams'
It’s a Plane! No, It’s a Bird
By NEIL GENZLINGER
“Pelican Dreams” is a study of California’s brown pelicans by Judy Irving, the director of “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.”
Movie Review 'A Merry Friggin' Christmas'
Hitting the Road to Keep a Holiday Illusion Alive
By BEN KENIGSBERG
“A Merry Friggin’ Christmas” stars Robin Williams in one of his last roles.
Movie Review '21 Years: Richard Linklater'
A Director’s Gift
By ANDY WEBSTER
“21 Years: Richard Linklater,” by Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood, offers a star-studded tribute to the director of “Boyhood,” “School of Rock” and “Slacker.”
Movie Review 'Sex Ed'
Inexperienced, in More Ways Than One
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
In “Sex Ed,” Haley Joel Osment plays a teacher who bounces from one humiliation to another.
Movie Review 'Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain'
30 Years Later, Reliving an Industrial Disaster
By BEN KENIGSBERG
“Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain” dramatizes the buildup to the 1984 poisonous gas leak from a pesticide factory in India, taking historical liberties for effect.
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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Photos & Video
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The director discusses a sequence from his film.
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Photos & Video
Directing ‘The Theory of Everything’
The Academy Award-winning director James Marsh discusses his newest project, “The Theory of Everything,” which chronicles the life of the cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
Dan Gilroy Narrates a Scene From ‘Nightcrawler’
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