Another busy weekend at the movies is upon us, with three new wide releases and a handful of prestige Oscar hopefuls making their nationwide expansions. Opening in the highest number of theatres is 12 Strong, a war drama about the U.S. “horse soldiers” sent to fight in Afghanistan immediately following ...

Guy Ritchie has always been, if anything, a very stylish director. He launched his career with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, two very idiosyncratic films that wielded their surprising lowlife vulgarity as a kind of cinematic street art; these early films established Ritchie as an auteur with ...