Bad Milo!
Smarter and way more original than the average gross-out comedy
Movies
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
The Last Days on Mars
A lot of badly choreographed fights in space suits and helmets
Fukufuku-sō no Fukuchan
Yosuke Fujita’s forlorn, funny, touching and tantalizing new film
Interstellar
This must-see film will stretch your mind
DamNation
Eco-doc with a general lack of focus or political balance