Ben Stiller could have easily made Nutcrackers, a Christmas-season comedy about a work-obsessed single man who becomes a reluctant guardian to his four unruly nephews, in 1999, as he was making ...

Measured in its world-building and tactfully hinting at horrors beyond what’s depicted on-screen, “Falling Stars” embodies both the effectiveness and trappings of the “less is more” approach when ...