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“In most films, a scene that begins with the guitar solo from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird isn’t going to end well, it being a soundtrack for a spiralling, escalating and inevitable sort of climactic violence. But The Dark Horse, James Napier Robertson’s strong and true story of redemption, family bonds and a bipolar former chess prodigy, is not most films.

"'A Hologram for the King' has great energy, and also a languorous, lived-in quality. Adapted by Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) from the Dave Eggers novel, the movie locates us in a place — Saudi Arabia — and makes us want to stay. It finds a rhythm and engages us in the struggle of the central character. It becomes a kind of world, and we’re glad to be in it.

"British Col. Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) has a clear assignment: to capture a young Englishwoman who is collaborating with terrorists. To that end, Powell has enlisted the help of an American drone pilot (Aaron Paul) whose mission is not to engage militarily but merely to track her target’s movements in Nairobi.

"Don Cheadle deftly sidesteps the pedestrian potholes of the biographical drama in his debut as writer-director, Miles Ahead, also taking on the role of mercurial 20th century jazz innovator Miles Davis.

While magazines, television, and movies may lead you to believe that sex always happens on clean sheets, with perfect lighting, sculpted bodies, and nary a hair out of place, in real life, doing the deed is far less glamorous. Sex can be messy and clumsy, and that's just between two people. But what happens when you add more to the mix?