Wendy R. Weinstein

Even before it became an international best-seller, 'The Girl on the Train,' with its echoes of 'Rear Window' and 'Gaslight,' was a natural for the screen, and now Tate Taylor’s psychologically acute film adaptation has arrived, with a fearless Emily Blunt in the lead, delivering chills and catharsis.

Director Stephen Frears delivers one of his best films since 'The Queen' with this affecting, witty drama starring Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, based on the true story of an Irish girl placed in a convent for fallen women, who 50 years later seeks her son who was sold into adoption.

Residents of Tucson might not appreciate the choice of their fair city as the place “where dreams go to die,” but even they will probably find plenty of pleasure in Hamlet 2. Directed by Andrew Fleming (Dick) from a screenplay he wrote with Pam Brady (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut),...

Director Ira Sachs begins Married Life with a frothy animated opening-credits sequence set to Doris Day singing “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.” We’re cued to relax, travel back to a simpler time, but of course relationships in the ’50s (1949, to be exact) were no simpler than they are today...