The Big Short attempts to break down the ins and outs of the 2008 financial crisis for those of us who don’t know a CDO from a CDS
The Hateful Eight is “the eighth film by Quentin Tarantino” as proudly denoted by the opening credits
There are a number of routine day-to-day moments in Room that turn inexplicably, quietly devastating. Bring some tissues
The Greatest American Detective comes to Prague in Dinner for Adele, a strange, surreal mystery-comedy from acclaimed director Oldřich Lipský
Mad Max: Fury Road is the craziest $100 million blockbuster ever made, and demands to be seen in the biggest and loudest cinema possible
The Little Man (Malý Pán) is a live-action puppet movie brought to life through the use of marionettes controlled off-screen by skilled puppeteers
Ex Machina is a brilliantly conceived, thought-provoking piece of science fiction that puts its big budget contemporaries to shame
The Duke of Burgundy is both a loving ode to late 60s/early 70s sexploitation helmed by Radley Metzger, and something of greater design
Song of the Sea is an enchanting, magical little fairy tale that does what films do best, enveloping us in its mythology and transporting us to another time and place
Whiplash is something like Mr. Holland’s Opus meets Full Metal Jacket: J.K. Simmons’ instructor is brutal, violent, and relentlessly foul-mouthed
Nightcrawler is an original and highly impressive directing debut from Dan Gilroy bolstered by a startling lead performance from Jake Gyllenhaal
Blackhat is an exhilarating Johnnie To-like procedural ripped straight from the headlines yet unceremoniously dumped in mid-January
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