The predominant image of Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game is that of Alan Turing’s giant machine, tirelessly and slowly churning its gears
Fury, a must for war movie veterans, perfectly depicts the logistics of tank battle – and the gory reality of warfare
Edge of Tomorrow is a high-concept, high-powered ride through – and through, and through – a D-Day-like assault on an alien menace
The Monuments Men tells the story of a handful of men who recovered artwork stolen by Nazis during WWII and their wartime efforts
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is immensely aided by the presence of Kenneth Branagh both in front of and behind the camera
Redemption is a somber drama about an ex-Special Forces soldier who served in Afghanistan and now survives on the streets of London
About Time spices up the usual rom-com sentimentality with a sci-fi twist: our hero can travel in time at will
Ron Howard’s Rush presents an authentic-feeling re-creation of the 1970s rivalry between Formula 1 drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt
Diana charts Lady Di’s little-publicized love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan during the final years of her life
Kick-Ass 2 revels in over-the-top brutality; by the big action-packed finale, it has become the kind of superhero movie it originally set out to parody
World War Z features scenes of massive waves of zombies flooding down the streets and climbing on top of each other to get over a giant wall
Action movies don’t get more preposterous than the latest entry in the Fast & the Furious franchise, a go-for-broke cartoon spectacle
I Give it a Year charts the deterioration of a relationship, starting with minor quibbles and turning into some full-blown shouting matches
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