Michael Fassbender stars as a football coach who attempts to turn American Samoa’s national football team around in this spirited but cloying comedy.
What is likely to be the final movie with this cast of X-Men characters is one the low points for this 19-year-old saga
This icy thriller from the Jo Nesbø bestseller pits a solid mystery against a wintry backdrop, but comes unglued by the end
This sequel to Prometheus throws in a lot more Alien action, and backstory explanation, to little effect
It’s mutant vs. mutant when an Egyptian God is resurrected in this 1980s-set X-Men adventure
Steve Jobs is essentially a three-scene movie but it’s so rat-a-tat compelling that we’re glued to the screen throughout
The Bard gets the Game of Thrones treatment in 2015’s Macbeth, a full-blooded, and fully bloody, adaptation of the classic play
Slow West is going for something like Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, but it’s much too simplistic and straightforward to work on that level
X-Men: Days of Future Past is a a great-looking sequel that exhibits genuine feel for its comic book origins and brings a whole lotta fun
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is not just a bleak history lesson but a literate, engaging, and ultimately devastating film
Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt star in this brilliant neo-noir gem from Cormac McCarthy and Ridley Scott
Prometheus, director Ridley Scott’s prequel to Alien, is a masterful mixture of brainy sci-fi ideology and splatter movie schlock
Haywire is far from perfect, but it has two things really going for it: MMA star Gina Carano and brutally effective action scenes
Bleak and draining, without much in the way of hope, Steve McQueen’s Shame is a powerful film but not an easy one to watch
A Dangerous Method seems like a match made in heaven, though this is a far more conventional film than would be expected of Cronenberg
Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre is the kind of literate, refined production that might be more at home in a BBC miniseries
It takes some gumption to title your film First Class, but that’s exactly what Matthew Vaughn has delivered with his dynamite X-Men prequel
An intense and incredibly controlled film, Hunger represents a remarkable directorial debut for Steve McQueen
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a real pleasure to watch, an audacious and inventive amalgamation of spaghetti westerns and WWII exploitation films,
François Ozon´s Angel is an uneasy mixture of camp satire and lurid melodrama
300 is a near-masterpiece that ignores all reasonable aspects of storytelling, such as, say, plot or character development