Arts

Moviegoers recognize that trailers are basically a form of publicly sanctioned lying. Filmmakers will do just about anything to make their next release come off as a gotta-see-it necessity.

What? This will be a common reaction to the Danish “Men & Chicken,” an extremely black comedy that plays like a Three Stooges version of H.G. Wells’ “The Island of Dr. Moreau.”

From a technical perspective, "Tale of Tales" is a gorgeous film, a visual masterpiece of art design and cinematography. It's also dramatically stillborn.

“Louder Than Bombs” is a sort of ghost story, though not of the white-sheet-bump-in-the-night variety.