Author: Roger Moore

Pierce Brosnan’s perfect hair barely budges in the breeze, he fixes his eyes in that narrowed, steely stare and you remember, yes, he was a pretty good James Bond. But he’s not Bond, not at 61. He’s this fellow named Devereaux, and back in the day, when he showed up for an assignment it was…

“Sin City” is back in all its lurid, gory glory, a vivid and visceral graphic novel come to life in the capable hands of Robert Rodriguez and co-director and comic book creator Frank Miller. If anything, it’s a more gorgeous experiment in green screen digital sets and black and white videography, complete with selective splashes…

Starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley, Joshua Leonard, Stacy Keach; directed by R.J. Cutler; 103 minutes; PG-13 for thematic elements and some sexual material Chloe Grace Moretz takes on her first real star-vehicle romance in “If I Stay,” an adaptation of Gayle Forman’s novel. Moretz is Mia, a Portland, Ore., high school cello…

Starring Jim Caviezel, Alexander Ludwig, Michael Chiklis; directed by Thomas Carter; 115 minutes; PG for thematic material, a scene of violence and brief smoking “When the Game Stands Tall” is a solid if unsurprising and uninspiring melodrama built around high school football. It’s the latest of that peculiar sub-genre of sports films, in which filmmakers…

The film version of “The Giver” is briskly directed in bright, confident strokes, scripted to emphasize its thought-provoking qualities and acted by players, young and old, who are “all in” on the future they’re portraying. As adaptations of young adult sci-fi go, it holds its own against the many successes of this “teens save the…

Starring Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., Nina Dobrev, James D’Arcy, Rob Riggle, Andy Garcia; directed by Luke Greenfield; running time 104 minutes; Rated R for language including sexual references, some graphic nudity, violence and drug use The laughs are loud, lewd and low in “Let’s Be Cops,” a spoof of cop “buddy pictures” that is…

Twelve years in the making, filming a few scenes each year to capture kids as they progress through life, Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” is an amazing achievement in telling an unremarkably remarkable life story. It’s a film of cultural touchstones and life’s mileposts, striking in their familiarity, narrow in execution. “Boyhood” is like a fictional feature…

Starring: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Whoopi Goldberg, the voices of Tony Shalhoub, Johnny Knoxville, Danny Woodburn; directed by Jonathan Liebesman; 100 minutes; PG-13 for sci-fi action violence The “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” earn a Michael Bay-produced 3-D reboot that spares no expense in special effects and spares no decibel in the volume that…

Starring Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon; directed by Lasse Hallstrom, 121 minutes; PG for thematic elements, some violence, language and brief sensuality The culinary culture clash comedy “The Hundred-Foot Journey” dawdles, like a meal that drags on and on because the waiter is too busy texting to bother bringing you the…