Comedy, Drama
Top Five

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

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.

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, …

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.

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
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.

Action/Adventure, Drama
John Wick

Never mind, then, that Film Freak Central says “the film sweats cool.” ‘Cause there’s no cinematic pot of gold at …

Comedy, Drama
Dear White People

A rumination on race relations at a fictional Ivy League school, Dear White People wants to give us something important …

Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

A washed-up movie star tries to find a second life as a serious stage actor. But his superhero alter ego …

Drama, War
Fury

Brad Pitt’s World War II tank warfare movie rubs our cinematic faces in two hours of grimy, dirty, charred-flesh misery.

Drama, Romance
The Best of Me

This overwrought romance gives us, of course, two likable lovers—and a really problematic love story.