The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Jennifer Lawrence in a bigger, somewhat better sequel.
A road trip with Bruce Dern and Will Forte, and a Romanian holiday with Shia LaBeouf.
Thunder god in diminishing return, romance in the past-tense.
Matthew McConaughey scores again, and a sci-fi classic sags on the screen.
A great film from France and a Ridley Scott misfire.
Chiwetel Ejiofor in a stunning slavery tale, Robert Redford adrift on the stormy ocean.
Tom Hanks goes to sea, the Mexican avenger returns, and a punk-rock chronicle flames out.
Bullock and Clooney lost in space, Justin Timberlake drawing a bad hand.
Andrew Bacevich's new book offers a powerful critique of U.S. foreign policy-but the solution it proposes is no remedy.
In a showdown with Gov. Scott Walker, democracy is the big winner.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt scores, horror finds a new style, and Southern R&B lives again.
Charles Murray's latest book mixes American history with American flattery.
A befuddling De Niro dud and a monument to a master Brill Building songwriter.
Vin Diesel on another planet, a great writer stripped bare, and a legendary guitarist revisited.
A De Palma comeback, an Ethan Hawke car wreck, and another good Sam Rockwell performance.
The private schools that educate the subcontinent's poor are under attack.
Simon Pegg scores again, and another attempted tentpole collapses.
A new book tackles the myths that have grown up around nuclear weapons.
Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey confront a racist past and Hit-Girl suits up again.
Murder at the Fed, capitalism in Balzac's France, Thomas Mann's family saga, and what it takes to beat the market.
Matt Damon shoots for the stars, Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis head for the border.
Michael B. Jordan offers a complex portrayal of Oscar Grant, who was killed by police.
Neuroimaging is pretty cool, but it can't do what its most enthusiastic boosters claim.
Really good, almost good, and not completely worthless.
The faulty history that lures Americans into foolish foreign interventions
A new study of the Industrial Revolution examines the lives of 350 people who lived through it.
Ryan Gosling at a loss for words, ghostbusters back in business.
A series of polls in six countries reveals a multilayered, ever-evolving Arab identity.
Moisés Naím's brilliant new book charts how the little people are winning.