What could have been a sleepy legal drama surrounding a contract dispute turns utterly compelling thanks to its powerhouse lead performances.
Brad Pitt plays an astronaut sent to find his father orbiting Neptune in this space drama that alternates heightened realism with goofy thrills
Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones putter around at a New Mexico retirement home in this woeful new senior citizen comedy
Check your brain at the door: this low-rent mashup of Jason Statham action and Mission: Impossible is especially silly but devilishly fun
Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass bring some kinetic slam-bang energy back to the Bourne franchise
The Family is some kind of loopy fish-out-of-water comedy that tries to blend the real-world consequences of its setting into a light-hearted frame
Lincoln is a star-studded, expertly filmed and directed period piece, the majority of which is engrossing and enlightening
Hope Springs doesn’t really fully explore its central concept, but two terrific central performances help boost this into above-average territory
Men in Black 3 represents a pleasant-enough diversion but little more after a decade-long absence from the series
Captain America: The First Avenger represents some of the best of what the Marvel universe has brought to the screen
In the Valley of Elah is an investigative drama that doesn’t quite reach the aspirations of its true-life story
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