Action/Adventure, Drama
Blackhat

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

Comedy
The Wedding Ringer

It’s a dead ringer for a goofy-faced jester who makes you giggle … before hitting you with a clown-car full …

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 …

Horror
The Descent

‘The Descent’ begins with a bloody car crash. And it ends with a bloody revenge killing. In between, six women …

Drama
The Gambler

In blackjack, the object is to reach 21 without going over. If Jim played the game like he lives his …

Drama, War
Unbroken

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

Drama, War
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 …

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 …

Comedy, War
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 …

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.