Survivor
Actioners don’t get any less original
Movies
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