Worth seeing at the movies, Dec. 4

Worth seeing at the movies, Dec. 4

Rich in emotion and period detail, this story of a young Irish woman (Saoirse Ronan) who moves to Brooklyn in 1951 is one of the best films of the year.

Director Ryan Coogler lends energy and a contemporary edge to the venerable Rocky franchise, with Stallone as the aging champ stepping in to train Adonis, the son of Rocky’s late friend, Apollo Creed.

Pixar’s dinosaur-themed Western adventure has an original concept and disarming emotional heft and features the most impressive visuals in animated cinema to date.

The film is limited by visible seams in the script, with a shifting tone that varies from light comedy to surprising menace, sometimes too abruptly.

Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie are longtime friends, on one last Christmas night bender before they enter the boring stage of adulthood.

Hung with care on the barest of plots, the aggressive randomness of this stoner buddy comedy fuels some genuinely inventive comic moments.