Battles Royale
Instrumental rock trio tours third album, La Di Da Di
Movies
Foujita
Kohei Oguri visits bohemian Montparnasse
Moonwalkers
Comedy bar’s low, but the film’s lack of ambition is one of its charms
Earth to Echo
Sure to delight you—if you’re eight
WolfCop
Saskatchewan lycanthropic filmmaking at its finest
Pan
A totally unpleasant cinematic experience
A Little Chaos
A beautifully filmed and acted period piece
Kat DeLuna Landing
The dancehall diva whines it up in Japan
The Visit
I think M. Night Shyamalan is trying for a horror-comedy
The Transporter Refueled
This franchise is out of gas
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Impressive visuals but narratively threadbare
Clouds of Sils Maria
Binoche, Moretz, and Stewart do some of their best work to date
John Wick
Not much of a plot; mostly, it's Reeves shooting people
The Age of Adaline
Meager emotional payoff for the great suspension of disbelief required
Insurgent
Nothing happened in this Divergent sequel, at least while I was awake
Survivor
Actioners don’t get any less original
The Captive
A lumbering misfire and waste of a strong cast
Magic Mike XXL
This bachelorette party of a movie is Showgirls with the F-bomb
Starred Up
Brutal but deeply humane look at the life of inmates
What We Did on Our Holiday
Bit sitcom-ish but well-written and directed
Fantastic Four
The world’s longest pre-credits sequence
The Intern
Good schmaltz, worth catching for the two Oscar winners
Pitch Perfect 2
In a word: a-ca-rappy
Fathers and Daughters
More depressing than anything else
Finding Vivian Maier
Documentary on an undiscovered American talent
Altman
Few film directors have been as admired (and emulated) as the late Robert Altman
Good Kill
Ethics study of the American use of drone strikes in the Middle East
A Most Violent Year
A well crafted, atmospheric, and believable film for grown-ups
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Definitive, exhaustive, and overlong
Ant-Man
A cliché-ridden Marvel second-stringer
Quoth the Räfven
The Swedish klezmer band’s Martin Nurmi on bringing back the dinos
Two Raging Grannies
A touching and relevant documentary
Yūwaku Yūjo: Sora to Shido
“Pink eiga” releases from OP Pictures
The Voices
Whimsical yet witless little creepshow
That Awkward Moment
A male Sex and the City; ’nuff said
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Well-made and superbly cast