In its quest for sincerity, AMERICAN HUSTLE and most of its characters too often feel like caricatures, their energy pilfered from superior movies you’ve seen before.

Silver Linings Playbook is smart, finely crafted and emotionally consuming. Codependency has seldom been this sweet.

Move over, Harry, Bella, et al. The big-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games opens today, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, the heroine in the middle of a teenage deathmatch.