Grace of Monaco
Dramatically inert middlebrow mush
Movies
Epic
Talk about a misleading title
A Most Wanted Man
Understaded, striking and suspenseful
A Million Ways to Die in the West
An all-star cast wasted on poop jokes
If I Stay
Manipulative, banal and relentlessly drippy
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
Mesmerizing, compelling and purely entertaining
Million Dollar Arm
Maudlin, sappy, minor-league film about baseball
Higurashi no Ki
A rare Japanese film with grace, insight, subtle emotion and power
Under the Skin
Existential, highly atmospheric and creepy movie “experience”
Red Obsession
An interesting and informative look at the winemaking of Bordeaux
Wake in Fright
Ted Kotcheff’s shocking film is quite unlike anything you’ve ever seen
Out of the Furnace
A neo-noir revenge thriller with a Winter’s Bone vibe
Mindscape
Sci-fi psychodrama offering fair suspense but little originality
No Barbie Girls Allowed
FEMM twerks hard for the money
Frank
Funny, quirky, original and honest oddity
Umi wo Kanjiru Toki
A scandalous tale from an 18-year-old author
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
A rare improvement on the original
Deliver Us From Evil
A lazy Exorcist retread
Frankie & Alice
Halle Berry tries, but is never truly engaging
Le Week-End
Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan have never been better
Time is Illmatic
Brisk and stylish hip-hop biopic
Night Train to Lisbon
A low-energy historical detective story
Guardians of the Galaxy
Silly, funky and thoroughly enjoyable
Frances Ha
Exuberant, poignant and wryly funny