Surfing the Australia coast and adolescent male angst in the 1970s.

A working-class town’s relentless legal battle against the state government’s use of eminent domain, anchored by a powerfully subdued Catherine Keener.

Moments of heartbreaking compassion mired in an exhausting plot.

Two Jewish boys’ adventures have life-and-death consequences in Occupied France.

The biopic of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt is given a stifling, low-energy treatment.

The behind the scenes of the so-called worst movie of all time.

A child’s eye view of the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

A fresh take on the old-fashioned, socially conscious, epic melodrama.

Ian McEwan adapts his elegant and acerbic 2007 novella.