Nicolas Cage can’t seem to escape the debate over the link between movies and real life murders. In his new film, Scott Walker’s The Frozen Ground , Cage plays a detective pursing serial killer Robert Hansen, who over 12 years abducted and killed at least 17 women.    Â
Richard Gere, in his best role since Internal Affairs, compels as Robert Miller, a morally bankrupt hedge-fund magnate in this refreshingly grown-up thriller. Â Â Â Â
“Has it never crossed your mind, a woman of your age in a sensitive industry?†a spook berates Helen McCrory’s aviation engineer, Frankie, who has fallen for a French-Algerian student (Najib Oudghiri), 20 years her junior.    Â
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“We cross and re-cross our tracks like figure skaters,†claims Jim Broadbent’s bumbling publisher in this impenetrable adaptation of David Mitchell’s time-hopping bestseller. Various characters – played by Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant – are connected through the ages by a musical score and acts of violence.    Â
Furrowed brows and harsh whispers are the order of the day in this slick but predictable political thriller, which stars Mark Wahlberg (in one expression mode: befuddled) as Billy Taggart, a New York private eye and former cop who is taken for a ride by Russell Crowe’s corrupt mayor. Â Â Â Â
Gael GarcÃa Bernal, in his best role since Y Tu Mamá También, plays Rene, a skateboarding advertising hotshot tasked with running the 1988 “NO†campaign against General Pinochet’s vicious Chilean dictatorship.
Judd Apatow’s “sort-of sequel” to Knocked Up revisits the married couple played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, now found to be suffering a mid-life crisis – although it’s only a crisis if you’re used to the sort of moneyed Californian privilege that Apatow enjoys.    Â
“It’s going to be a black hole, this one,†intones Mark Strong’s contemplative copper in this bleak police drama, set on the Wirral coast.    Â
Roger Moore delivers a convincing performance in this 1970s film as a straight-arrow businessman who is inexplicably tormented by a malevolent force while driving. Â Â Â Â