Big Hero 6
Original and clever enough to put in the “both parents and kids” category
Movies
Maps to the Stars
David Cronenberg’s tragicomic take on Tinseltown
Bad Milo!
Smarter and way more original than the average gross-out comedy
A Promise
French director Patrice Laconte’s first English-language effort
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