James Ponsoldt’s intimate and deeply moving The End of the Tour is a cinematic adaptation of David Lipsky’s memoir, “Although You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace.” Given the love I have for Ponsoldt’s poignant coming-of-age story The Spectacular Now, a picture that made me cry on more than one occasion, I had high expectations …

When you look at the plot in Ricki and the Flash, it’s clear to see that it has some potential to present an intriguing film. With an absentee mother who essentially chose to chase after her nonexistent music career over staying with her young family years earlier at the center of it, it would be hard not to find something …