Brick Mansions, is just passable action fare for the undemanding; you could do far worse for some brainless late-night thrills
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 plays it fast & loose, bright & colorful, and will certainly please undemanding fans, particularly younger viewers
Bland, dull, and lifeless, Endless Love actually manages to be worse than the much-maligned original
Transcendence features a simple but irresistible premise, as a scientist has his brain transferred into a computer in order to live indefinitely
Richard Ayoade’s The Double creates a wonderfully bleak worldview filled with devilishly ironic circumstance
3 Days to Kill has little to recommend it outside of a genuinely appealing performance from Kevin Costner in movie-star comeback mode
A Long Way Down is an unusually bad test of your patience that is bound to induce squirms
The Invisible Woman, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, is beautifully crafted but so low-key and subtle that it barely raises a pulse
Captain America: The Winter Soldier bests the first Captain America film in most storytelling regards – including plot, pacing, and story development
Darren Aronofsky’s Noah takes the story of the Ark and goes nuts with it – it’s the Old Testament for the Transformers generation
The vampire movie gets the Jim Jarmusch treatment in Only Lovers Left Alive, a too-hip-to-be-hip treatise on the undead
Her treats its lead character’s relationship with his operating system not as a strange or comic premise, but as an entirely realistic
An erupting volcano is the least dramatic thing to happen in director Paul W.S. Anderson’s Pompeii, a mashup of various movie clichés
Wes Anderson’s dazzling WWII-era film was one of the very best of 2014
Scott Waugh’s Need for Speed takes the same mentality as the video games: screw everything else, this is all about the cars
The Railway Man, a tender WWII drama, is well-crafted by director Jonathan Teplitzky and beautifully shot by Garry Phillips
300: Rise of an Empire is purportedly based on a follow-up graphic novel by Frank Miller entitled Xerxes, yet to be released
Stephen Frears’ Philomena works due to two terrific lead performances and their genuinely poignant odd-couple relationship
The Monuments Men tells the story of a handful of men who recovered artwork stolen by Nazis during WWII and their wartime efforts
Non-Stop is a good old-fashioned B-movie thriller updated with modern technology and post-9/11 air travel commentary
Saving Mr. Banks tells the story of Disney’s film version of Mary Poppins and the relationship between Walt Disney and author P.L. Travers
Beautifully shot and with an outstanding soundtrack, Inside Llewyn Davis ranks among the Coen Brothers’ greatest films.
A whimsical tale of love and the supernatural, Winter’s Tale is so heavy-handed and self-serious that you can’t quite believe your eyes
One Chance is a one-note, rigidly formulaic affair that feels much too contrived to be completely on the level