A Most Violent Year (2014) Movie Reviews

A Most Violent Year (2014)

In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city’s history.

Black or White (2014) Movie Reviews

Black or White (2014)

A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

Two Days, One Night (2014) Movie Reviews

Two Days, One Night (2014)

Liège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.

Cake (2014) Movie Reviews

Cake (2014)

Claire becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group while grappling with her own, very raw personal tragedy.

Diplomacy (2014) Movie Reviews

Diplomacy (2014)

A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.

Son of a Gun (2014) Movie Reviews

Son of a Gun (2014)

JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia’s most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch’s gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another.

Song One (2014) Movie Reviews

Song One (2014)

A young woman strikes up a relationship with her ailing brother’s favorite musician.

The Humbling (2014) Movie Reviews

The Humbling (2014)

A stage actor who is slowly losing his mind engages in a relationship with a sexually confused younger woman.

American Sniper (2014) Movie Reviews

American Sniper (2014)

Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle’s pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can’t leave behind.

Blackhat (2015) Movie Reviews

Blackhat (2015)

A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.

Little Accidents (2014) Movie Reviews

Little Accidents (2014)

In a small American town still living in the shadow of a terrible coal mine accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws together a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy in a web of secrets.

Winter Sleep (2014) Movie Reviews

Winter Sleep (2014)

Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce….

Goodbye to Language (2014) Movie Reviews

Goodbye to Language (2014)

The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog …

Inherent Vice (2014) Movie Reviews

Inherent Vice (2014)

In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry “Doc” Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.

Selma (2014) Movie Reviews

Selma (2014)

A chronicle of Martin Luther King’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

Concerning Violence (2014) Movie Reviews

Concerning Violence (2014)

The most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule.

Big Eyes (2014) Movie Reviews

Big Eyes (2014)

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

Into the Woods (2014) Movie Reviews

Into the Woods (2014)

A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.