“The Captive” offers the intriguing concept of the author of “Don Quixote” viewed through a lens more redolent of “Arabian Nights,” spinning tales to keep himself alive while a hostage of Moors in ...

This conceptually ambitious, if uneven feature from Alejandro Amenábar portrays pre-fame scribe Miguel Cervantes as a Spanish hostage in a 16th-century Algiers. Those not expecting a more ...