Rick Groen

The Heat: There was a funnier way to do this

Unfinished Song: Great acting never gets old

My Brother the Devil is more than another boyz-’n-the-hood genre flick

On Proust: ‘I still think those are the 50 greatest pages of any book I’ve ever read’

Frances Ha: Seldom has aimlessness looked so good, or felt so fresh and joyful

Hannah Arendt: German actress Barbara Sukowa is exemplary as the great 20th-century thinker

The Bling Ring: A lively case study in pure L.A. anthropology

Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington: An eloquent tribute to a renowned photojournalist

Dirty Wars: Doc shines a light on a secret U.S. killing machine

This Is the End leaves viewers asking: When will it be over?

Rock-em-sock-em action in The Purge

Before Midnight: The conversation continues, and beautifully so

Pieta’s mother-and-son reunion in Seoul slum makes for a riveting ride

Lore: A wrenching coming of age in 1945 Germany

British black comedy just not quite funny enough

The Hangover Part III: weirdly, fascinatingly bad

Something in the Air: A wispy but likeable look at France, post-1968

Love Is All You Need: A wonderfully likeable character, a superlative actress

Greetings from Tim Buckley: a particular tale of father and son

The We and the I: Michel Gondry commits sociology on a Bronx bus