Serenity
Viewers will be hard-pressed to find much that’s redemptive as they wade through this thriller.
The Book Thief
As narrator, Death points us to a young orphan girl who loves nothing more than reading books while she struggles to survive—and thrive—under the glare of book-burning Nazis.
About Time
About Time is a maddeningly sweet film that, with some strategic edits, easily could have been more accessible to a much wider audience than its R rating will allow.
Last Vegas
Four acting legends go to Sin City to collect another paycheck, market a casino and create a salacious (but sometimes sweet) movie.
Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey shed 40 pounds for his role as Ron Woodroof, a promiscuous, hard-charging Texan in the 1980s who contracts AIDS and then becomes an unlikely hero (to some) in the fight against the deadly disease.
The Counselor
There’s no country for old sin. That’s what The Counselor tells us. So why does it show us so much of it?
Jacka– Presents: Bad Grandpa
Bad Santa, Bad Teacher and now Bad Grandpa. At least these flicks let you know right up front that they’re going to be … bad.
Carrie
This “classic” horror pic is reimagined for the social media generation—and made all the more disturbing.
12 Years a Slave
This is one of the most searingly intense portraits of slavery ever committed to film, exercising onscreen brutality to bludgeon slavery’s grim, cruel and conscience-less degradation.
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is a dense, ponderous (and sometimes foul) look at Julian Assange and the complex array of secrets he helped leak.