BLACKKKLANSMAN. 3 stars. Spike Lee brings the amazing true story to the big screen of Ron Stallworth, a black man who integrated the Colorado Springs Police Department in the 1970s and while doing so infiltrated and disrupted a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a fellow officer. Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, and Topher Grace. 2 hrs. 17 R (language) _ Gary Thompson
COLETTE. 2.5 stars. Evocative period drama and abbreviated biography of French writer Colette (Keira Knightley) who as a young woman wrote a series of sensational novels that her husband (Dominic West) published under his own name. Knightley is good, as usual, but the picture is disrupted a bit by West, who is so good at playing Colette's scoundrel of a husband that you miss him when he's gone. 1 hr. 51 R (sex) _ Gary Thompson
CRAZY RICH ASIANS. 3 stars. An American woman (Constance Wu) goes to Singapore for a wedding and discovers her boyfriend (Henry Golding) is ultra-wealthy, and that not everybody is happy about their relationship. Frothy, sometimes superficial, but elevated by Wu's charming lead performance, and her scenes with Michelle Yeoh as her prospective mother-in-law. 2 hrs.1 PG-13 (language) _ Gary Thompson
HALLOWEEN. 3 stars. Four decades after the original terrified and grossed out moviegoers, the franchise springs back to life with Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strose, the only survivor of Michael Myers' first killing spree. 1 hr. 49 R (profanity, violence) _ Nick Vadala
THE HAPPY PRINCE. 2 stars. The final three years of Oscar Wilde's life play out as one long, dismal death scene in director Rupert Everett's biopic. 1 hr. 44 R (profanity, sexuality) _ Gary Thompson
THE HATE U GIVE. 3 stars. Effective adaptation of the YA bestseller about a teen (Amandla Stenberg) who witnesses a police shooting, and must navigate the treacherous gap between the way the incident is viewed in her mostly white prep school, and the African American neighborhood where she lives. Strong cast (with Regina Hall, and Stenberg is excellent) and assured direction from George Tillman Jr., who handles several complex issues with thoughtfulness and skill. 2 hrs. 12 PG-13 (language) _ Gary Thompson
THE OATH. 3 stars. Ike Barinholtz directs and stars as a combative political junkie who hosts his family for Thanksgiving and has no intention of letting the evening pass peacefully. 1 hr. 33 R (profanity, violence) _ Gary Thompson
OPERATION FINALE. 2.5 stars. Competent, thriller-style telling of Israeli agents (Oscar Isaac, Nick Kroll, Melanie Laurent) in 1960 locating and capturing Nazi fugitive and war criminal Adolph Eichmann (Ben Kingsley), then in hiding in Argentina. Directed by Chris Weitz. 2 hrs. 2 PG-13 _ Gary Thompson
A SIMPLE FAVOR. 3 stars. A blogger (Anna Kendrick) attempts to discover the secret behind her friend's (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance. 1 hr. 56 R (profanity) _ Gary Thompson
VENOM. 2 stars. Not much bite to this generic superhero movie about a TV journalist (Tom Hardy) investigating the secret experiments of a tech overlord (Riz Ahmed), and ends up infused with alien DNA that makes him go monster from time to time. Hardy and co-star Michelle Williams manage to get some laughs from the material, but the ending is another one of those dull CGI smackdowns, with the actors supplanted by animated versions of themselves. 1 hr. 52 PG-13 (language) _ Gary Thompson
THE WIFE. 3 stars. A novelist (Jonathan Pryce) wins the Nobel Prize for literature, but when he goes to Stockholm to claim, his marriage (to Glenn Close) and life start to unravel. Well-acted, but a clumsy script tips the viewer to secrets meant to shock when revealed in crucial scenes. Based on the Meg Wolitzer novel. 1 hr. 40 R (language) _ Gary Thompson
