Drama, War
Unbroken

Unbroken, then, is hard to watch but easy to praise. The horror of the inhumanity it depicts is wrenching. The …

Drama
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 …

Drama
Selma

It’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. vs. a hard-nosed sheriff who stands amid a plantation full of prejudices in Alabama.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
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 …

Action/Adventure, Drama, War
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.

Drama, Musical
Ragamuffin

This is the cautionary, complicated tale of Christian singer/songwriter Rich Mullins.

Drama, War
The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game is a well-made, well-acted, thought-provoking film. Certainly its subject matter makes it a difficult one, and its …

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, Romance
The Theory of Everything

It’s a rare thing for a movie to feel incredibly inspiring and yet deeply depressing all at once.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Interstellar

Earth is dying, and mankind throws a Hail Mary pass through a providential wormhole in this grandly scientific, often confusing …

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.