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Movie stars: capsule reviews

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January 13, 2012

A scene from Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone. (andy diaz hope/pale griot…)

New releases

★★★ Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone The best thing about this film is that it really is the story of Fishbone. It’s a hearty, smartly assembled, seemingly complete documentary about a rock band that, even by the standards of out-there musical acts, seemed out there both in the early 1980s and even now. (107 min., unrated) (Wesley Morris)

★★★ The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground An entertaining documentary about the band that formed on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1986 and still performs around the world, preserving Yiddish with its original music rooted deep in Eastern European Jewish cultural tradition. Director Eric Greenberg Anjou followed the Klezmatics for more than three years. The show-business clichés of the band’s story are transcended by its members’ feisty personalities and skilled, joyful music. In English, Yiddish, and Polish, with subtitles. (106 min., unrated) (Loren King)

Previously released

★★ ½The Adventures of Tintin Director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson bring the intrepid boy reporter of Hergé’s classic comic books into the digital new millennium with mixed results. The film’s a visual marvel that’s cold to the touch, with a chase-rinse-repeat story line that grows tiresome and motion-captured characters that lack the warmth of human beings. (107 min., PG) (Ty Burr)

★★★★ The Artist Michael Hazanavicius’s silent, black-and-white love letter to classic movies isn’t perfect, but it’s close enough to make just about anyone who sees it ridiculously happy - and that includes children and grown-ups who’ve never come across a silent film. Jean Dujardin plays the charming Hollywood ham whose career goes south with the arrival of the talkies; Bérénice Bejo is his love interest. A crowd-pleaser and a joy. (100 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)

★★★ ½ A Dangerous Method The insinuation in David Cronenberg’s sex drama is strong, the acting stronger. Adapted by Christopher Hampton from his play, the film focuses on the professional and emotional bond between the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), his mistress and assistant Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). With Cronenberg, devilishly, the sex proves more curative than the talking. (94 min., R) (Wesley Morris)