Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II attempt a high-speed getaway in this jolt of adrenaline from director Michael Bay
Dave Bautista leads a ragtag team into a Las Vegas overrun by zombies in this madcap adventure from Zack Snyder
A beefy Jason Momoa goes all out to protect his family in this nearly-good B-movie that takes a nosedive during its climax
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is not just a bleak history lesson but a literate, engaging, and ultimately devastating film
Looper manages to capture both our eyes and minds despite a (relatively) small budget and an absence of overdone CGI effects
The Road is cold, miserable, relentlessly grim; there’s no joy and little hope in this post-apocalyptic tale
The Last House on the Left is a jarring, visceral film that is by rights superior to Wes Craven’s 1972 original
The brilliant novel by Cormac McCarthy is brought to life page-by-page and – at times – word-by-word in the brilliant No Country for Old Men