Art and movie

Tristan Bauer’s film portrays the Falklands War in 1982 as a mismanaged, vainglorious spasm of nationalism.

Tian Zhuangzhuang’s biopic is a stately and respectful reflection on the life of Wu Qingyuan, one of the 20th century’s top players of go, a Japanese game said to rival chess in complexity.

The playfully self-aware touches of “Dead Silence” distract from its leaden pacing, three too many final twists and various behavioral idiocies.

The serial-killer parody “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon” has nerve, rapier-sharp observations and a firm grasp of tone.

“Nomad: The Warrior” looks and feels like an old-school American western. Not a great western, but a reasonably good example of that genre.

Chris Rock has made an unusually insightful and funny mainstream American movie about the predicaments of modern marriage.

The chronicles presented in “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” are as alive and as troubling as anything on the evening news, though far more thoughtful and beautiful.

“My Brother” is billed as the tale of two poor, orphaned siblings, but it wants to be much more than that.

“Adam’s Apples” — about a neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a rural church — is a weird mix of glib humor with dead-serious spiritual inquiry.

This documentary about the business of reality television illustrates the premise that if you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.