On DVD/Blu-ray

A grand, brave, often mesmerizing but just as often puzzling cinematic experience, “Cloud Atlas” (R, 172 min.) takes a book generally thought to be unfilmable… Read more »

“Mama” (PG-13, 100 min.) is an environmentally creepy horror flick that features plenty of boo-gotcha scares, but also takes the time to build a pervasive… Read more »

“Silver Linings Playbook” (R, 122 min.) pulled off something that hadn’t been done in more than three decades: Academy Award nominations for best picture, screenplay,… Read more »

“Hyde Park on Hudson” (R, 95 min.) exists in that nether realm floating somewhere between history, biography and legend. Its central characters are none other… Read more »

Daniel Day-Lewis gives a mesmerizing, nontraditional performance as the 16th president of the U.S. in “Lincoln” (PG-13, 149 min.), a biopic that makes its own… Read more »

Too much or too little? When it comes to Tolkien screen adaptations, there seems to be little agreement in how much material to stuff into… Read more »

The rap on “Rise of the Guardians” (PG, 97 min.) sure is nasty. It didn’t get nominated for an Academy Award for animated feature, while… Read more »

Ambitious, vexing, jubilant and depressing, “The Master” (R, 144 min.) is a film that neither Hollywood nor audiences quite knew what to do with. It… Read more »

When it comes to cinematic adaptations of monstrously huge fantasy literary franchises like “Harry Potter” and “The Lord of the Rings,” there are two schools… Read more »

I’ve never attempted a double video review before, but the simultaneous release of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” (PG-13, 102 min.) and “The Sessions”… Read more »

Visually, it’s appealing, but the script has no life…. Read more »

File “End of Watch” (R, 109 min.) under the list of best movies of 2012 that you probably haven’t seen … or maybe even heard… Read more »

During a slow week for new video releases, you might want to take a timeout from mainstream fare to see “The Other Dream Team” (not… Read more »

As a filmmaker, Tim Burton’s mostly been working on reanimation projects lately — taking old movies and making them rise from the dead as remakes… Read more »

Ambitious but not entirely successful, “Looper” (R, 119 min.) is much more than your standard science fiction action flick. Writer/director Rian Johnson (“Brick”) has crafted… Read more »