Youth, The Lady in the Van, In the Heart of the Sea, Janis: Little Girl Blue, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words

Youth

The Lady in the Van

In the Heart of the Sea

Janis: Little Girl Blue

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words

Quick capsules from a relatively slow (and mostly middling) December:

Interstellar, Diplomacy

Interstellar

Diplomacy





Watching "Interstellar" is like sitting through a seminar in astrophysics at the Maharishi University.

The Dark Knight Rises

Christopher Nolan's trilogy-concluding "The Dark Knight Rises" assaults the viewer with the unrelenting bass thump of a Hans Zimmer score (which also marred "Inception"), its queasily violent vision of a downtrodden Gotham held hostage by an unremarkable villain, and endless, nothing-special scenes of hand-to-hand combat, CGI effects, and green-screen projections. At 165 bloated minutes, it's boring beyond belief.