Drama, Horror
The Lazarus Effect

Scientists try to bring back the dead. Because that’s worked so well before.

Comedy, Romance
The DUFF

That’s what people call Bianca, anyway, and she doesn’t like it one bit. But un-DUFFing herself is no easy task, …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Seventh Son

The first book of Joseph Delaney’s The Wardstone Chronicles makes its decidedly unmagical way to the world of movies.

Drama
Pass the Light

Pass the Light may be a low-budget movie, but it dares to ask a high-end question: What is “the true …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Jupiter Ascending

But the end result with Jupiter Ascending is that it feels just like one of those old silent movies, only …

Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Project Almanac

I’m a bit happy that Project Almanac has such a clunky name. That alone might make some moviegoers spend their …

Comedy, Drama
Black or White

Kevin Costner squares off against Octavia Spencer in a dramedy about race, identity, love, family, addiction and redemption.

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Mortdecai

This quirky misfire of a comedy is more Austin Powers raunch than Inspector Clouseau madcap.

Action/Adventure, Drama
Blackhat

This is something of a computer-hacking non-thriller that feels illogical, ill-defined and, well, rather poorly “coded.”

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Taken 3

The Taken trilogy has taken its toll on Liam Neeson in more ways than one, and he looks almost as …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death

Keep calm and smile at the demon, they might say. But since when does that sort of thing save the …

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 …