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It may lack the existential dread of a bona-fide sci-fi classic, but “Star Trek Into Darkness,” the 12th feature based on a television show canceled 45 years ago, is certainly one lavish pop confection. Noisy, frenetic, grandiose and essentially a soap opera, director J.J. Abrams’s second contribution to the franchise has everything, including romance: Never [...]

Everything comes together brilliantly in “Silver Linings Playbook”—for the film’s crazed but uncrazy lovers; for the filmmaker, David O. Russell, and best of all for lucky us. Mr. Russell’s sixth feature goes beyond flirting with disaster, to borrow the title of his second one, even beyond catching lightning in a bottle. This romantic comedy of [...]

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“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” goes by like a fevered dream of love, but one you remember vividly, with profound pleasure. A romantic comedy unlike any other, this gorgeous phantasmagoria, which was written by Charlie Kaufman, directed by Michel Gondry and shot by Ellen Kuras, takes a question that’s been posed by poets across [...]