Readers react to a papal election on the big screen.

“You may think you know my story,” says Mary, having galloped into the movie on horseback. “Trust me. You don’t.”

The pacing of “Gladiator II” says a lot about what Ridley Scott’s priorities were for this film: spectacle, immersion, pure feeling.

Dorothy and her friends’ journey is one of discovery and gratitude, an external quest that reveals internal riches.

Age and its relationship to stardom is the animating subject of “Sunset Blvd,” “Tammy Faye” and “Death Becomes Her.”

What separates “Bonhoeffer” from the myriad instructive Holocaust biographies and melodramas is its timing.