Bridget Jones's Baby, Snowden, Operation Avalanche, Fatima, Silicon Cowboys

Bridget Jones's Baby

Snowden



Operation Avalanche

Fatima



Silicon Cowboys

Notes from another middling week of movies:

Jurassic World, Madame Bovary, Live from New York!, Love at First Fight

Jurassic World

Madame Bovary



Live From New York!

Love at First Fight





Capsules on a mostly poor week of movies:

The Amazing Spider-Man

For summer moviegoers choosing among blockbusters, the entertaining and action-packed "The Amazing Spider-Man" offers good value for money. Its most valuable asset is the up-and-coming star Andrew Garfield, who first made a big impression in the science-fiction romance "Never Let Me Go." There's a twinkle in Garfield's soulful, imperceptibly sad eyes that suggests an intelligence to which Tobey Maguire could scarcely aspire, and a fresh-faced openness that juxtaposes intriguingly with his introspective, vaguely brooding gait.

Mr. Nice

Rhys Ifans gets a rare starring role in "Mr. Nice," the true story of Howard Marks, an accidental hashish dealer who in the 70s and 80s became a high-living, fun-loving, identity-morphing kingpin always just ahead of the law (and simultaneously an unacknowledged agent of MI6).