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“Burn Your Maps” is one of those movies that’s glib and facile and threadbare all the way through, then the ending sort of gets to you (you’d have to be made of pretty stern stuff if it didn’t), so you think back over what you’ve seen — and it’s still a crock. The writer-director, Jordan Roberts, seems drawn like a magnet to overly manipulative feel-good genres. This is another of those dramas about a couple who have lost a young child, and it’s ripping them apart, but watching them go through the motions of a healing that won’t take, the audience feels just about as removed from their pain as they are.

I’m not suggesting that this is an invalid subject for a movie, only that it’s not one you want to see treated with on-the-nose therapeutic shallowness. When we first meet...

Part art-house, part mainstream, Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig’s debut is an interesting film from Mongolia, and probably one of its most known products.

Galt was a sick kid since the birth, and his father Badam, after listening to the advice of a warlock, sends him to grow up with his uncle. However, as the movie begins, the uncle dies and the pre teen boy returns to his estrange family. Initially he struggles to adapt, despite the efforts of his brother Tomor and father. However, as Badam is preparing his herd of horse for the Naadam race, a famous competition that takes place in the area, a yellow colt that seems lost enters his herd, and Galt takes an immediate liking to it, identifying with its fate. Despite the protests of their father, the two boys train the new horse, which proves to be an extremely fast one. However, as their effort...