Ghostbusters, The Infiltrator, Café Society, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, Men Go to Battle

Ghostbusters

The Infiltrator

Café Society

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

Men Go to Battle

A seriously great undercover mission highlights the week in film:

Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, The End of the Tour, Phoenix, Staten Island Summer, Unexpected, Listen to Me Marlon, Best of Enemies

Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation

The End of the Tour



Phoenix

Staten Island Summer





Unexpected

Listen to Me Marlon




Best of Enemies

Quick capsules on the week’s movies:

The Double

In Richard Ayoade's new stunt of a movie, "The Double," Jesse Eisenberg plays Simon James, a mouse of a man employed in data entry in a dimly lit, windowless, seemingly subterranean sea of cubicles overseen by fast-talking Mr. Papadopoulos (Wallace Shawn), a conceit that owes as much to Jeunet and Caro as to Dostoevsky.

Now You See Me

The Four Horsemen are three magicians (Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco) and a mentalist (Woody Harrelson) of indeterminate connection who perform a series of stage spectaculars.

The Best Films of 2012: #5

After the mediocre, name-dropping "Midnight in Paris" (which the masses loved because it let them feel sophisticated for picking up on literary references from high school English), Woody Allen returned triumphantly to form with "To Rome With Love," his richest work since "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," brimming with great ideas cleverly realized and chock full of outsize laughs.

To Rome with Love

“To Rome With Love” is Woody Allen’s richest work in years, brimming with great ideas cleverly realized and chock-full of outsize laughs. It marks a welcome return to form for Woody after the mediocre “Midnight in Paris,” whose mass appeal lay primarily in the sort of name-dropping he lambastes here.