But the director’s latest indulges too much in his signature cliches.

“The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is exactly the kind of movie you’d think it is, so you already know if you’re going to see it.

Judi Dench is starring in an upcoming BBC movie, the filming of which caused a lot of rubbernecking by Maryland drivers.

James Bond’s 23rd big-screen adventure rocks hard, somberly and even mournfully. It doesn’t celebrate the glamorous lifestyle of a dashing spy so much as it makes you worry about him and his Ma’am.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is predicatable and sentimental, but the acting makes it a pleasant enough stay.

Notes on a Scandal may star two of the greatest living actresses, thespians who more often play monarchs than molls, but don’t fool yourself—the movie’s trash, not art. But it’s a kind of high trash, a thinking woman’s “beach viewing,” much in the vein of the delightfully lurid 2003 François Ozon film Swimming Pool. Based on the novel What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal by the British writer Zoë Heller, Notes stars Judi…