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• Star Trek Into Darkness -

  B J.J. Abrams beams a menacing Benedict Cumberbatch into his rebooted franchise.

• Frances Ha -

  A- Greta Gerwig re-teams with Greenberg director Noah Baumbach for a winning comedy about friendship and impending adulthood.

• Black Rock -

  C+ Three friends fight for their lives in a thriller that seems to resent its obligation to thrill.

• Pietà -

  C How did this punishing new parable from Kim Ki-duk win the top prize at Venice?

• Augustine -

  B- A doctor and his patient spar for power in an overreaching period drama.

• Erased -

  D+ Gratuitous violence can’t compensate for the massive failings of this Aaron Eckhart actioner.

• The English Teacher -

  C Julianne Moore plays the title role of a contrived comedy.

• 33 Postcards -

  C- There must be cheaper ways to boost the Chinese and Australian tourism industries…

• State 194 -

  C+ For the uninitiated, here’s a documentary primer on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• The Great Gatsby -

  C+ Baz Luhrmann’s take on the lit masterpiece is just as gaudy, but not as ruinous, as it looks.

• Tyler Perry Presents Peeples -

  B- Craig Robinson meets the parents in a blessedly painless addition to the Perry oeuvre.

• Stories We Tell -

  A- In her first documentary, Sarah Polley bravely scales her own family tree.

• Aftershock -

  C+ It’s hell on (crumbling) Earth for the obnoxious heroes of this sadistic disaster movie.

• Sightseers -

  C- Vacationing lovers get their hands dirty in this one-note dark comedy from the director of Kill List.

• Venus And Serena -

  B- A conventional sports doc searches for uplift in the worst season of the tennis pros’ careers.

• And Now A Word From Our Sponsor -

  C The great Bruce Greenwood almost saves this pointless farce. Almost.

• Java Heat -

  C+ Cleanly staged mayhem—and an outsize Mickey Rourke—bolster a generic action import.

• No One Lives -

  D Even wrestling fanatics will feel cheated by the latest from WWE Studios.

• Post Tenebras Lux -

  B- The new film from Carlos Reygadas starts brilliant, then gets baffling.

• Dead Man’s Burden -

  B+ Sometimes they do make ’em like they used to.

• Love Is All You Need -

  C Italy is for wounded romantics in this fluffy import.

• What Maisie Knew -

  B- With parents like these, who needs enemies?

• The Iceman -

  C+ Michael Shannon plays a ruthless killer. It’s less fun than it sounds.

• Greetings From Tim Buckley -

  B And salutations from his son, Jeff, the true subject of this behind-the-music drama.

• Kiss Of The Damned -

  B- Bad acting can’t quite sink this Euro-horror homage.

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• Crimewave -

  B Fans of the collaborating auteurs can now catch up with their ill-fated crime comedy on DVD and Blu-ray.

• Hey Good Lookin’ -

  B An obscure Ralph Bakshi animated film depicts 1950s New York with appealing roughness.

• Hemel -

  B+ The sexual adventures of a lonely 23-year-old are more sophisticated than the Euro-softcore they might suggest.

• Howdy, Kids!! A Saturday Afternoon Western Roundup / Captain Cornelius Cartoon’s Cartoon Lagoon, Vol. 1 -

  B+ A pair of new TV sets offer entertainment from bygone eras.

• Panic In The Streets -

  B+ Director Elia Kazan kicked off a brilliant ’50s run with this stylish noir about a plague threat in New Orleans.

• Dirk Gently -

  B+ A BBC Four series captures the spirit of Douglas Adams’ irreverent comic mystery novel.

• Badlands -

  A Terrence Malick’s masterful debut extracts the haunting mythology from the lurid Charles Starkweather-Caril Ann Fugate killings.

• Monsieur Verdoux -

  A- Charles Chaplin reinvented himself with this post-WWII serial-killer comedy.

• GLOW: The Story Of The Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling -

  B+ This abridged version of the Gorgeous Women Of Wrestling’s story only hints at the dysfunction in the league.

• Phantasm II -

  B This sequel reaffirmed Don Coscarelli’s interest in creating oddball genre pieces for an imagined cult audiences.