'The Grey' - a pack of disappointment

With Liam Neeson at the helm, "The Grey," a movie about a group of men forced by circumstance to handle extreme danger and stress, should have been riveting. But, at a recent local showing, the movie's attempts at suspense, emotion, tension and melancholy prompted howls of laughter, pun intended, mixed in with an I-want-my-money-back urgency.

Asger Leth's 'Man on a Ledge' teeters on brink of blah

The so-called thriller "Man on a Ledge," about a disgraced cop who threatens to jump off a building to divert attention from a heist going on across the street, isn't even implausible in a fun way.

Glenn Close too stoic in 'Albert Nobbs'

The role of Albert Nobbs is one that's been near to Glenn Close's heart for a while. She first played it 30 years ago off-Broadway and reprises it now in a project she's been working for some time to bring to the screen.

Hampshire Choral Society presents US debut of long-lost 'A Cambridge Mass'

As some see it, Ralph Vaughan Williams was perhaps the greatest English composer since Henry Purcell, the Baroque master of the 17th century, and certainly one of the most significant modern English composers. That's why there was considerable excitement in Britain's musical world last year when conductor and musicologist Alan Tongue, backed by a full choir and orchestra, debuted a never-before-heard piece by Vaughan Williams that Tongue had discovered in manuscript form in 2007 at Cambridge University. Now the ambitious work, "A Cambridge Mass," will have its United States premiere Sunday at Smith College in Northampton.

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'Joyful Noise' never really sings

If some incarnation of "Glee" were to be developed for the Christian Broadcasting Network, it would probably look a lot like "Joyful Noise."

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' is top-notch '70s-style thriller

The most deliciously satisfying quality of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is hidden in plain sight: it is set in the 1970s.

'War Horse' hammers home the emotions

Just in time for family-friendly holiday feel-goodery is Steven Spielberg's sweeping, historical epic "War Horse."