Andrew Lapin

Hugo's novel tops Amazon's best-seller list in France, following Monday's fire that ravaged the cathedral. The 19th century story was a campaign to get the cathedral restored.

Victor Hugo wrote Notre Dame de Paris, or The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in the 19th century to draw attention to the cathedral, which had fallen into neglect and disrepair. It worked.

Sure, this lush, blistering riff on pop stardom — and the many ways it intersects with a culture obsessed with both violence and celebrity — is over-the-top. That's the point.

Anna Rose Holmer's story of girls seized by seemingly unknown forces, and a new member of their group who must find her place among them.

Cheadle takes on the jazz great in an uneven but inventive film that struggles at times to bring clarity to its idea of Davis but experiments intriguingly with past, present, fact and fiction.

Sure, Charlie Brown is a little too cheerful, but in many ways, Charles Schulz's voice is maintained by his descendants in the Peanuts gang's first feature in 35 years.

The Lorax is a tale of saving the trees — which makes it a little surprising that one of the merchandising tie-ins for the new film is with Mazda SUVs.

Guy Ritchie deploys the ultimate Holmes villain — brilliant, malevolent Professor Moriarty — in an action-packed sequel to his 2009 hit.

A selfish slacker (Jonah Hill) finds himself baby-sitting some nightmare kids — on a night where he'd rather be out with a girl. Andrew Lapin says comedy, like baby-sitting, is clearly harder than it looks.