Maya Erskine

Freeze Frame: “The Amateur” (R), “Sacramento” (R), “The Luckiest Man in America” (R)

Oscar winner Rami Malek stars in a tight and smart throwback spy movie, "The Amateur." Malek plays a meek and mild CIA computer analyst and decoder whose wife is murdered when a terrorist operation in London goes wrong. When his CIA superiors decline his request to go after the killers...

FREEZE FRAME: “Argylle” (PG-13), “Scrambled” (R), “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” (R)

The wildly imaginative tongue-in-cheek action comedy "Argylle" is the sort of movie that the term "meta" was coined for. Bryce Dallas Howard stars as a homebody novelist. She becomes the target of assassins when the adventures of her fictional spy hero, played by Henry Cavill, parallel actual events. Sam Rockwell...