Actress-filmmaker Radha Blank’s semi-autobiographical midlife-crisis tale The Forty-Year-Old Version evokes memories of Woody Allen + Paul Mazursky.
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Starring Chadwick Boseman and standout Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler’s movie history-making Black Panther gives new life to the superhero genre.
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Starring the German Mary Pickford, Ernst Lubitsch’s The Doll movie is a satirical fantasy featuring inventive art direction and jabs at the Catholic Church.
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Starring an excellent Michael Fassbender in a dual role, Ridley Scott’s suspenseful Alien: Covenant takes the franchise in a more discerning direction.
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Don’t wet your seat while watching Fede Alvarez’s cleverly assembled Detroit-set horror thriller Don’t Breathe. Cast: Stephen Lang and Dylan Minnette.
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Remarkable women’s suffrage movie Mothers of Men dismisses the notion that the female right to vote would destroy American families and society.
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Fritz Lang’s two-part semi-historical epic tragedy Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Kriemhild’s Revenge is a cinematic masterpiece.
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Films such as those seen in the British Film Institute’s compilation Around China with a Movie Camera offer a magical window into the past.
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With some assistance from Dalton Trumbo himself, Bryan Cranston delivers a phenomenal performance as the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter.
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Michael Fassbender is outstanding in director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s vibrant biopic Steve Jobs. Kate Winslet costars.
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A victim of British anti-gay bigotry, the title character in the movie Lord Montagu became a successful businessman and popular jet-setter.
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Christopher McQuarrie’s thrilling Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation shows that Tom Cruise continues to outrun it - and them - all.
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Directed by Asif Kapadia, the Amy Winehouse nonfiction movie Amy is an all-around remarkable achievement. Oscar winner.
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Featuring its title character as a mere sidekick, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road places women on top. Cast: Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.
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Ava DuVernay’s Martin Luther King Jr.-focused drama Selma is a reminder that Civil Rights events of the mid-1960s remain disturbingly relevant.
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Ivor Novello and Fay Compton star in Basil Dean’s romantic drama Autumn Crocus, featuring a wistful glimpse into middle-aged longing.
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Ira Sachs’ moving gay romantic drama Love Is Strange makes great use of cinema’s various crafts. Cast: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina and Marisa Tomei.
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Richard Linklater’s Boyhood movie brilliantly tackles the effects of the passage of time. Cast: Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane.
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Tom Cruise - Hollywood’s last film star - single-handedly brings to gripping life Doug Liman’s otherwise absurd sci-fi actioner Edge of Tomorrow.
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Featuring elements from a few ‘dystopian future prevention’ thrillers, Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past is a superhero film for adults.
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Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013) is more daring and philosophical than Vol. I. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stellan Skarsgård star.
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier continues the remarkable collaboration between Marvel and Disney. Chris Evans and Robert Redford star.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel expands Wes Anderson’s cinematic horizons both visually and thematically. A memorable Ralph Fiennes stars.
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Ritesh Batra’s Mumbai-set debut feature The Lunchbox weaves a ‘socio-romantic’ narrative connecting a married woman and an unhappy widower.
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Oscar Isaac creates a memorable human dud in Joel and Ethan Coen’s impressive music world drama Inside Llewyn Davis. Carey Mulligan costars.
The Wolverine Hugh Jackman is at the embittered heart of James Mangold’s surprisingly violent Logan, one of the best superhero movies out there.
Reminiscent of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War is the far better movie. Chris Evans + Robert Downey Jr star.
While emphasizing feel-good themes, Ridley Scott proves with the absorbing The Martian that he’s still got what it takes. Matt Damon stars.
Melissa McCarthy rises to the occasion in Paul Feig’s transgressively feminist Spy movie comedy. Jason Statham and Miranda Hart costar.
Damien Chazelle’s visually and aurally accomplished Whiplash provides J.K. Simmons with a devil of a role. Also in cast: Miles Teller.
Karin Swanström and Hjalmar Bergman’s The Girl in Tails shows that women must fight and scandalize in order to remove the weight of social oppression.
The starkly funny Nymphomaniac: Vol. I provides further evidence that Lars von Trier is a cinematic genius. Cast: Shia LaBeouf and Stacy Martin.