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 …

Comedy, Drama
Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice is a whacked-out, confused, incoherent mess of a movie—and intentionally so.

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.

Comedy, Drama
Top Five

Too bad this serious Chris Rock comedy won’t even make our Top 500.

Drama, Musical
Ragamuffin

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

Drama
Still Alice

Through a tearfully gripping story of early-onset Alzheimer’s we’re shown that love is well worth clinging to.

Drama
Wild

By the end of this two-hour-but-oh-so-much-longer-feeling journey we too have some extra baggage to hoist, most of it visual.

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 …

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, …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

Despite the title, Katniss’ struggle now is no game. There is no arena, there are no tributes. What we’re left …

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, Sports
Foxcatcher

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

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, Romance
The Theory of Everything

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