Stonehearst Asylum is an enjoyably old-fashioned piece of horror filmmaking, though it won’t hold many surprises for astute viewers
St. Vincent is an effective if overly familiar-feeling comedy-drama that, like its lead character, is careful never to get too schmaltzy
Peter Jackson’s The Battle of Five Armies lives up to its title with a epic extended battle sequence that goes on for nearly an hour
Jimmy P. is Del Toro’s film, and the actor carries it with a quiet, incredibly mannered performance that is quite different to what we’ve seen from him before
Horrible Bosses 2 has a number of genuine laughs and an undeniable charm that overcomes its frequent vulgarity
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 is only the first half of the final chapter of Suzanne Collins’ immensely popular young adult franchise
Fury, a must for war movie veterans, perfectly depicts the logistics of tank battle – and the gory reality of warfare
Chadwick Boseman is so committed to the role of James Brown, so enigmatic, that you can’t take your eyes off of him
Biting Hollywood-skewing satire meets David Cronenberg weirdness in Maps to the Stars, an occasionally vicious portrait of life in Beverly Hills
While A Walk Among the Tombstones isn’t as exciting as The Equalizer or John Wick, it’s still the class of this fall’s revenge movie crowd
The Judge is unimaginatively conceived but fluidly executed, even as it crawls to an excessive 141-minute runtime
Denzel Washington reverts to Man on Fire ass-kicking mode in this violent revenge film
Wrong Cops, wrong criminals, wrong everything in Quentin Dupieux’s latest foray into experimental WTF filmmaking, a short & senseless little Reno 911-like riff
The Maze Runner is a refreshingly small-scale B-movie that doesn’t bother with the more self-serious aspects of its genre cohorts
The Hundred-Foot Journey is full of enough mouth-watering scenes of food preparation to fill a minor craving
Lucy flies by in a razzling, dazzling whirlwind, barely giving you time enough to think about what you’re actually seeing
Begin Again is a gleeful feel-good experience that is destined to please all but the most demanding viewers
Transformers: Age of Extinction, director Michael Bay’s fourth foray into robots-in-disguise franchise, has delivered the goods
There’s just one problem with Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West: it isn’t very funny
Angelina Jolie anchors Disney’s Maleficent, a CGI-infused take on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale that purports to spin the story on its head
Olga is not a definitive biography of the former First Lady, but paints an intimate picture of its subject with a fitting warmth and humanity
Godzilla doesn’t appear until halfway through Gareth Edwards’ film, but that feels just about right in this 2014 franchise reboot
Richard Ayoade’s The Double creates a wonderfully bleak worldview filled with devilishly ironic circumstance
Captain America: The Winter Soldier bests the first Captain America film in most storytelling regards – including plot, pacing, and story development