New and Noteworthy: Movies

This Is Where I Leave You A long-estranged family reunites when the patriarch passes away. Trouble ensues. Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, and Jane Fonda star.

Autumn Blood Orphaned siblings in a remote mountain area must struggle for survival after the sister is assaulted.

The Green Prince Documentary on the son of a Hamas founder who becomes a spy for Israel.

Last Days in Vietnam The fall of Saigon and the agonizing decisions faced by American soldiers who were ordered to evacuate Americans only are examined in this documentary.

The Maze Runner A group of boys find themselves in the middle of a large maze with no idea how or why they're there.

My Old Lady A New Yorker (Kevin Kline) inherits an Paris apartment and discovers it has a tenant with a legal right to remain there the rest of her life.

Tusk A Canadian podcaster goes missing while out to conduct an interview.

A Walk Among the Tombstones Liam Neeson stars as a private detective who is hired to find out who kidnapped and killed the wife of a drug kingpin.

Reviewed by critics Steven Rea (S.R.), Tirdad Derakhshani (T.D.), and David Hiltbrand (D.H.). W.S. denotes a wire-service review.

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Boyhood Richard Linklater's unassuming masterpiece follows a Texas kid (newcomer Ellar Coltrane) from grade school to college dorm, reconvening cast and crew (including Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as the parents) a few weeks every year for 12 years, and its carefully observed series of small moments take on quiet, metaphoric power. The faces and features of the actors, children and adults, change, and good stuff, bad stuff, the funny, the sad, the transformative, the banal, all happen in real time. Because, for once in the movies, time is real. 2 hrs. 46 R (profanity, sex, adult themes) - S.R.

Calvary Brendan Gleeson stars as a good priest in a bad world - in the beautiful west country of Ireland - in John Michael McDonagh's stormy whodunit. A furious, darkly funny look at the nature of faith, and the nature of man. 1 hr. 40 R (violence, profanity, adult themes) - S.R.

The Drop A tense, evocative neo-noir, expanded from Dennis Lehane's short story, starring Tom Hardy as a Brooklyn barkeep and Noomi Rapace as the woman who walks into his life - and into trouble, when the bar is robbed by a couple of masked gunmen. With James Gandolfini, in his swan-song role. 1 hr. 46 R (violence, profanity, adult themes) - S.R.

Love Is Strange John Lithgow and Alfred Molina bring extraordinary depth and nuance to their portrayals of a longtime couple whose modest, comfortable New York City life is upended when they decide to take advantage of the new gay marriage laws and get officially hitched. Hassles, and heartbreak, ensue. 1 hr. 34 R (profanity, adult themes) - S.R.

A Most Wanted Man One of Philip Seymour Hoffman's last performances is also one of his greatest - as the rumpled, chain-smoking chief of a covert antiterrorist unit in modern-day Hamburg. The actor lives and breathes the role. A taut thriller, adapted from John le Carré's 2008 novel, full of tradecraft and moments of quiet terror, with a stellar supporting cast. 2 hrs. R (profanity, violence, adult themes) - S.R.

Wetlands Stunning, joyful, profane, this Rabelaisian coming-of-age story about love and family stars Carla Juri in a fearless, jaw-dropping turn as a teen girl who sets out to experience all that is dirty - literally and sexually. Innovative and surreal, the film uses the heroine's exploits as a gateway into her conflicted psyche. 1 hr. 45 No MPAA rating (language, nudity, graphic sex, scatalogical humor, smoking) - T.D.

As Above/So Below *1/2 Horror and thrills in the catacombs of Paris. From the director of Quarantine and Devil. 1 hr. 33 R (bloody violence/terror, language throughout) - W.S.

Dolphin Story 2 **1/2 Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd return for this sequel. Their team must again rescue Winter after her surrogate mother passes away. 1 hr. 47 PG (mild action sequences, one intense scene of animals in peril) - T.D.

Guardians of the Galaxy *** Chris Pratt rounds up a team of outer-space misfits. Their mission: Does it matter? This breezy comic-book adaptation is the first sci-fi movie to spoof itself. 2 hrs. 2 PG-13 (violence, profanity) - D.H.

If I Stay **1/2 Chloë Grace Moretz stars as a high school girl, a cello prodigy with a hot new boyfriend and a chance to go to Juilliard, when a family drive turns tragic. In a coma in a hospital bed, she flashes back on key moments in her childhood and adolescence, and considers whether to fight for her life or move on. From Gayle Forman's top-selling Y.A. novel. 1 hr. 43 PG-13 (profanity, sex, adult themes) - S.R.

Let's Be Cops Two buddies who dress up as cops for a party wind up getting sucked into doing real police work in this comedy that stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. Not previewed

The November Man *** Pierce Brosnan is a retired CIA guy, back in the game in this efficient, if not exactly inspiring, espionage thriller, full of Russian baddies, a former protégé turned nemesis, and a witness whom everyone is after - and who just happens to look like a supermodel. 1 hr. 48 R (violence, sex, profanity, adult themes) - S.R.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ** Uninspired reboot of the jokey '90s franchise, with Megan Fox as intrepid news reporter April O'Neil, friend to those adolescent, anthropomorphic reptiles schooled in the martial arts. Will Arnett and William Fichtner also show up. 1 hr. 41 PG-13 (violence, adult themes) - S.R.