A Promise
French director Patrice Laconte’s first English-language effort
Movies
Kinlay
Local band brings island sounds to Shibuya
“Christmas Confusion” Romantic Comedy
Mari coincidentally catches her boyfriend Tachan being intimate with another woman on Christmas.
Sukuitai
A medical drama based on reportage about Tohoku earthquake survivors
Honeymoon
A microbudget gem with a good script and committed actors
Heaven is For Real
As is the hell of sitting through faith-based movies
Love, Rosie
A drippy, unrealistic romantic comedy
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
A fitting adieu to Middle Earth
God’s Not Dead
A lame attempt even for faith-based cinema
Gone Girl
Intelligent, mesmerizing, high-level pulp
Alive Inside
Doc about the healing powers of music
Savaged
Surprisingly entertaining zombie thriller