American Sniper
Clint Eastwood turns his laser-like focus toward a real-life war hero named Chris Kyle—and the price he paid to become one.
Big Eyes
Walter Keane’s paintings of big-eyed children were all the rage in Mad Men-era America. But those saucer-wide eyes held a strange, sad secret.
The Interview
A run-of-the-mill Seth Rogen comedy has suddenly become a global firebrand, a rallying cry for free speech and a great new way for Americans to stick it to dour dictators everywhere.
Selma
It’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. vs. a hard-nosed sheriff who stands amid a plantation full of prejudices in Alabama.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a rollicking, satisfying conclusion to Peter Jackson’s second Tolkien trilogy. It’s also easily the most violent.
Exodus: Gods and Kings
It’s not how God looks that’s the most troubling thing: It’s how He acts in Exodus: Gods and Kings.
Top Five
Too bad this serious Chris Rock comedy won’t even make our Top 500.
Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice is a whacked-out, confused, incoherent mess of a movie—and intentionally so.
Ragamuffin
This is the cautionary, complicated tale of Christian singer/songwriter Rich Mullins.
Still Alice
Through a tearfully gripping story of early-onset Alzheimer’s we’re shown that love is well worth clinging to.