The Tribe forces you to pay close attention just to be able to understand what is going on, then recoil in horror once you do
Gone Girl works as an engrossing B-movie thriller, but it’s filled with such delicious subversive cynicism and social commentary that it becomes much more
Boyhood was filmed over the course of dozen years from 2002-2014, as director Richard Linklater filmed his principal actors through puberty
Joe is a startling return to form for director David Gordon Green, who made a splash with his debut feature, George Washington, back in 2000
The Way Out is like a punch to the gut: gritty, honest, and vividly realized, this is not a social polemic but a captivating look at the Czech Roma minority
Edge of Tomorrow is a high-concept, high-powered ride through – and through, and through – a D-Day-like assault on an alien menace
Her treats its lead character’s relationship with his operating system not as a strange or comic premise, but as an entirely realistic
Wes Anderson’s dazzling WWII-era film was one of the very best of 2014
Beautifully shot and with an outstanding soundtrack, Inside Llewyn Davis ranks among the Coen Brothers’ greatest films.
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is not just a bleak history lesson but a literate, engaging, and ultimately devastating film
Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 is clearly an incomplete piece of work, but it features a burning energy and a tangible arc
The Wolf of Wall Street shares a lot in common with Scorsese’s mob-centered epic Goodfellas – and it’s his best film since
All Is Lost works on a number of levels, but the most meaningful one may be how it relates specifically to star Robert Redford
Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt star in this brilliant neo-noir gem from Cormac McCarthy and Ridley Scott
Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips is a no-nonsense thriller that grabs you from the outset and never lets go
Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity is a real wow, combining ground-breaking space-age f/x with a straightforward B-movie survival plot
Ron Howard’s Rush presents an authentic-feeling re-creation of the 1970s rivalry between Formula 1 drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt
Blue Jasmine is the best film Woody Allen has made since 2005’s Match Point – or even 1989’s Crimes and Misdemeanors
Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight returns us to the ever-evolving relationship between Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy)
Only God Forgives, the second teaming of the director and star behind Drive, is a gorgeously photographed, cold-as-ice experience
Silver Linings Playbook is genuinely funny and genuinely touching, and moves throughout familiar territory with incredible skill
Zero Dark Thirty was conceived as an account of the CIA’s attempts to track down the al Qaeda founder behind the 9/11 attacks
Django Unchained represents Tarantino Unchained: it’s the director’s longest, most indulgent, and gratuitously violent film yet
The Master is another magnificent piece of filmmaking from the director of Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood