Movies

This documentary about a big-wave surfer only skims along the surface.

A 12-year-old’s journey of self-discovery makes for a somber fairy tale.

This documentary by artist Ai Weiwei is designed to arouse outrage and sorrow, and it succeeds.

A college girl gets killed, again and again, in a “Groundhog Day”-esque slasher film.

Skip the usual stuff and celebrate in ways that actually sound cool. Think a graveyard tour, a zombie walk and several creepy cocktails.

Vince Vaughn plays an imprisoned man seeking — and taking — vengeance.

In the seedy shadows of Disney World, a child tries to make a magic kingdom.

Domhnall Gleeson plays the writer of ‘Winnie-the-Pooh,’ A.A. Milne, as a shellshocked war veteran.

The ambitious film, set up as an probe into the artist’s death, is a technical spectacle, but at times it drags.

We see Thurgood Marshall as a justice-obsessed NAACP lawyer, not the giant he would become.

The animated adventure expands on the ‘Friendship Is Magic’ TV series.

Talking ponies must band together to defend their homeland.

Q’orianka Kilcher stars as storyteller Te Ata Fisher.

This slow-moving period drama has the feel of a chess game, not of life and death.

The prolific character actor, who died in September, plays a cranky old loner.