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Tom Cruise turns in a career best performance in Oscar winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s brilliantly challenging and risky satire Digger.

You Had to Be There provides a chance to experience the echoes of that event. You can’t be there without a time machine, but you can feel it reverberate.

In the reality-based Primetime, Robert Pattinson returns to the vampiric roots of his Twilight breakout, though in this case you can substitute “TV ratings” for “human blood.”

Pitt plays a deeply emotive role, simple in concept, but complex in portraying the extent of hardship Belmont experiences. There is a limit to human endurance and Pitt convinces us that he is capable of surpassing it.

A sweetly oblivious idiot with a huge ego and some talent, the entertaining characterization by Baruchel has undertones (and a bit of the look) of Danny McBride’s downward spiraling Kenny Powers in the baseball comedy series Eastbound and Down.

The Weight is a great yarn, well told. Ethan Hawke is the main attraction in this Depression-era crime thriller, here playing an unassuming everyman character in a tale of desperadoes and stolen gold.

You want to see the REAL Coyote vs. Acme movie of the summer? Then check out Hope, a bonkers two-hours, 40 minutes monster-chase movie that images Jaws transplanted to coastal South Korea, and the shark swapped out for something a little more bite-y.

The premise feels tacked on in a film that goes in too many directions, and ends up feeling thematically messy and unfocused.

Movies like this like to give their leading man a sympathetic foible like a lost daughter, a divorce, a substance-recovery journey or an unusual hobby. Runner deals out all four.

Despite all the talent, and sincere and even affecting themes about family and love, the film is rife with plot holes that undermine the story to the point of distraction.