Alicia Vikander makes a persuasive Lara Croft in the new-and-somewhat-improved `Tomb Raider`
(LA Times Dodgers)

The Oscar-winning Swedish actress Alicia Vikander has a talent for liberating her characters from states of confinement, emotionally if not physically. Those who noticed her before her big Hollywood breakthrough might recall the vividness of her performance as an uncomfortably corseted Danish queen...