City Paper grade: A- If you’ve seen Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells, you’re probably reading this in line outside the Ritz waiting for the doors to open for the first matinee of Song of the Sea. So: Let’s address…

Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel in ‘The End of the Tour.’ It wasn’t a surprise when Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s stylized tearjerker about a high school senior (Thomas Mann) whose life is changed when a…

City Paper grade: B- Michael Bond’s ever-so-British Paddington Bear books didn’t seem a good bet for the big screen: A substantial part of their charm likes in their plotlessness, not to mention their proud provincialism. Paul King, best known as…

City Paper grade: A- There is no fear like a child’s, and though the protagonist of Jennifer Kent’s astonishing first feature is a grown woman, the monster that invades her house through the mind of her 5-year-old son brings with…

Homeward Bound: Hillary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones in The Homesmen City Paper guide: B Tommy Lee Jones has finally found a director who can bring out his best: himself. Especially in the early scenes of The Homesman, a feminist…

City Paper grade: A- The scariest thing you’ll see this Halloween is Edward Snowden swearing in disbelief at the end of Laura Poitras’ gripping, disturbing documentary. Citizenfour, whose core is the now-(in)famous meeting between Snowden, Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald…

City Paper grade: A- The scariest thing you’ll see this Halloween is Edward Snowden swearing in disbelief at the end of Laura Poitras’ gripping, disturbing documentary. Citizenfour, whose core is the now-(in)famous meeting between Snowden, Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald…

Juliette Binoche stars opposite Kristen Stewart in Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria. The Oscar race came out of the Toronto International Film Festival pretty much the way it went in. Eddie Redmayne heads into the fall as the Best…

City Paper grade: A- Anton Corbijn’s moody Le Carré adaptation gains inevitable, and almost unbearable, poignancy from featuring one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final performances. (All that remains is Mockingjay, although he died before its completion.) But had he never…