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.

Welles' abandoned Hollywood satire The Other Side of the Wind hits Netflix and select theaters alongside the new making-of documentary They'll Love Me When I'm Dead;the two films inform each other.

Sorry, Wrong Nombre: Directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, known for stripped-down social realist dramas, bring their spare aesthetic to a surprisingly pulpy murder mystery.

Henry, a soft-spoken child prodigy who learns he was a "test-tube baby," goes on a quest to identify his biological father. Critic Andrew Lapin says the brilliant kid is compelling enough to sustain a film, but the filmmakers muddle the message with broad, often incoherent distractions.

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.

Martin Scorsese adapts the wildly popular kids' book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, deploying the visual-storytelling chops he has honed in nearly half a century of filmmaking. (Recommended)