Comedy
Horrible Bosses 2

Horrible Bosses 2 is desperately trying to be even more horrible than its predecessor. It’s really no more than that, …

Comedy
Dumb and Dumber To

The low-bar standard of inane and fart-focused giggles that Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels delivered some 20 years ago has …

Drama, Musical, Romance
Beyond the Lights

So is this a girl-empowering music-biz exposé, an impassioned Nicolas Sparks-style romance or a heavy-breathing leerapalooza? Well, let’s just say …

Drama, Sports
Foxcatcher

Based on a true story about Olympic-level wrestling, Foxcatcher looks for love and affirmation but finds only anger and jealousy.

Drama
Before I Go to Sleep

Before I Go to Sleep’s real problem is not one of scope and craft as much as wince-worthy moments betwixt …

Drama
Nightcrawler

Self-made journalist Louis Bloom is a bad person doing bad things … to make a good point? Does that make …

Comedy, Drama, Romance
Laggies

To lag, meaning to fall or stay behind. That’s what Keira Knightley’s done in this quirky, indie dramedy. But the …

Drama, Horror
Ouija

Here we have yet another woeful byproduct of that much ballyhooed partnership between Hasbro and Universal Pictures.

Action/Adventure, Drama
John Wick

Never mind, then, that Film Freak Central says “the film sweats cool.” ‘Cause there’s no cinematic pot of gold at …

Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

A washed-up movie star tries to find a second life as a serious stage actor. But his superhero alter ego …

Drama, War
Fury

Brad Pitt’s World War II tank warfare movie rubs our cinematic faces in two hours of grimy, dirty, charred-flesh misery.

Drama, Romance
The Best of Me

This overwrought romance gives us, of course, two likable lovers—and a really problematic love story.

Comedy, Drama
Dear White People

A rumination on race relations at a fictional Ivy League school, Dear White People wants to give us something important …

Drama
The Judge

This judge-accused-of-murder tale is far less about legal entanglements and more about an estranged father and son searching for reconciliation.

Comedy, Drama
St. Vincent

St. Vincent didn’t convince me of Vincent’s sainthood. But it does remind me that people are so much more than …