“I’m starting to think this is the most spiritual place I’ve ever been,†maintains Selena Gomez’s vacant Faith about her spring break in the Sunshine State. Harmony Korine is clearly trying to channel Sissy Spacek’s Holly from Badlands, but fails. As does this voyeuristic film
Vegas showmen Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell, shiny teeth, stonking toupée) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi, wonky teeth, wondrous manner) have been pulling the same act for decades – only to split up when challenged by maverick street-magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey in manic mode).    Â
Ed, 32, is a disgruntled call-centre worker by day and an angry stand-up comic by night.
While his contemporaries languish in dismal comedies (De Niro) and lame thrillers (Pacino), Christopher Walken continues to challenge himself and improves with age.
Steven Soderbergh signs off his movie-directing career with considerable panache here, with a film that starts out as an expose of big pharma and mental health before morphing into an adroit and surprising Hitchcockian thriller. Rooney Mara is compelling as troubled Emily, who after collecting her husband (Channing Tatum) from prison for insider trading crashes her car into a wall. Emily …
This Docklands-set crime thriller was a huge struggle. It took four attempts to get through it
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
“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