Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Dutiful but second-string sequel to the entertaining original
Movies
Tokyo for Ferguson
Japan protests police brutality
Big Hero 6
Original and clever enough to put in the “both parents and kids” category
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
Gone Girl
Intelligent, mesmerizing, high-level pulp
Alive Inside
Doc about the healing powers of music
Savaged
Surprisingly entertaining zombie thriller
Fury
Intense, visceral and unpredictable war flick
Kami no Tsuki
A flat thriller riddled with false notes
Uhnellys CD Release Party
Avant-garde rap-rock duo presents Loopholic
Delightful Nightmares
SoundWitch lays down lethal romance
Runner Runner
Rushed, pointless and flaccid crime opus
Open Windows
An inventive, gleefully manipulative techno-thriller
Director Takashi Yamazaki’s Parasyte
Sci-fi tale of a high school student whose right hand is taken over by an extraterrestrial parasite