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A chilling true crime tale makes for some of the year's most compelling performances.
A delicate, loving tribute to one of music's gentle giants.
It’s been too long since we’ve had a Mike Leigh film, but four years is only long with Leigh because the gaps between his movies are felt more heavily...
Todd Haynes' 1950s-set lesbian romance Carol is a touching display of forbidden love.
A dazzling example of storytelling in its purest form.
Like an alternative, bite-size version of Breaking Bad, first-time director E.L. Katz’s gruesome comedy Cheap Thrills takes an unassuming suburban family man named Craig (Pat Healy) and exposes a repressed, dark side...
A late-bloomer romance with tremendous comedic and emotional range.
Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive is a gloriously brutal love letter to action movies of the 70’s, featuring a lead character that doesn’t even have a name, a fantastic synth...
A good balance of heart and science, this exposé on the silent rise of the militarization of police has the potential to start a movement.
Joe Carnahan’s The Grey is an exhausting film. I mean that in a good way. This film involves characters going from one dire scene to another for 2 hours....
Nowadays, superheroes punching each other in the face and flipping over cars is the hottest ticket in Hollywood. Steven Knight’s Locke takes an actor, Tom Hardy, who’s no stranger to the comic book...
A stunning, unflinching examination of a child soldier's ascension to manhood.
Almost sexual in its slow build to climax, Eggers' period piece carefully illuminates the horrors of domestic mistrust and misogyny.
This quick-witted comedic update on Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn would make Mark Twain proud.
Twin boys suspect their bandaged mother isn't who she says in this nerve-shredding horror.
Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto wades through the malaise of modern teen life as well as any movie has in years, reminding us of how dirty and distressing high school life can truly...
The opening to Joe Berlinger’s latest documentary is the format’s biggest staple: the talking head. Stephen Rakes, a mom-and-pop liquor storeowner and one of James Bulger’s extortion victims, recalls...
When I was a kid, movies like Beauty and the Beast, The Sandlot, Toy Story, and Star Wars opened the floodgates of my imagination, inspiring me to dream up...
The Northern Ireland conflict gets further coverage from Yann Demange in this thrilling British film.
Pixar's latest animated adventure is their weirdest, most universal picture yet.
A visually sumptuous, frightening meditation on colonialism's violent stamping-out of indigenous culture.
Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis try being "just friends" while navigating a mutual tendency to abuse sex in this hilariously fresh rom com.
Talk about exceeding expectations. Is this the best 'Rocky' movie yet?
A true story of physical tragedy and spiritual triumph, dance doc Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of Le Clercq (known by friends as...
Fans of the terrific cult British teen drama Skins have long suspected that it was only a matter of time before Jack O’Connell rose to star status. Fantastic as...
Pohlad's Brian Wilson biopic sidesteps cliché, telling a stereophonic story of heroes and villains.
Denis Villeneuve's Sicario is a volcanic drug-war thriller that impresses on every level.
No film released this year has left me more shattered during its end credits than Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt. The film has moments of immense power and at times...
Warchus and Beresford have managed to sneak a progressive, rule-breaking film into mainstream cinemas. You'll be driven to tears, and every drop is earned.
An absurdist social critique that solidifies Lanthimos as not just a unique voice in today’s cinematic realm, but a great one as well.
In large part, what made Joe and Andrew Russo’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier such a successful and somewhat transcendent superhero movie was that its going concern wasn’t a...
While the basic premise behind Humpday is simple and somewhat idiotic, the film is far from it. This indie comedy won the John Cassavetes Award at 2010 Independent Spirit...
A provocative, hypnotic film dealing with the plight of immigrants stuck in Europe.
Unexpected twists, empathetic characters, and an unshakable darkness, 'The Ones Below' is one of the most suspenseful films of the year.
It’s hard not to like a love story whose lovers are brought together by a home-cooked meal. Make it an Indian home-cooked meal, with aromatic curries and slow-cooked vegetables,...
Having taken a short break from independent films for a short while, I was able to watch Nothing Without You with a fresh set of eyes and an eagerness...
Elisabeth Moss mesmerizes as a woman slowly descending into madness while her best friend quietly looks on.
An acerbic punch to the gut and a treasure chest for the philosophically inclined. The work of an auteur on top of his game.
This is a low-key movie about a lonely dwarf who’s only friend passed away, which he then moves to a new small town. His life has been full of...
Turning 18 means different things in different cultures, but almost every culture agrees it’s an age of adulthood. In the religious culture of Orthodox Judaism, at 18 a young...
