Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Boy Next Door

If only the boy would’ve stayed next door. Then we would’ve been spared this tacky, salacious, sexual, violent movie.

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Mortdecai

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

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
Blackhat

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

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 …

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
The Gambler

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

Comedy, Drama
Inherent Vice

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

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 …