Movie reviews: The Magnificent Seven, The Girl with All the Gifts, Little Men

The Magnificent Seven 4/5

A REMAKE of the 1960 classic, which was itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954), The Magnificent Seven (12A) stars Denzel Washington as Chisholm, a bounty hunter commissioned by Emma Cullen (Hayley Bennett) to defend the beleaguered town of Rose Creek against the private army of robber-baron Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard).

Assembling a team of crack killers — among them Faraday (Chris Pratt), Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke) and Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio) — Chisholm bunkers in at Rose Creek and prepares to defy impossible odds.