Warrior

The best of the sports clichés: a method of wrapping you up in the action without you noticing.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291584/

A Walk Among the Tombstones

As a Block/Scudder fan, I can say this was sufficiently gritty and morbid.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365907/

Frances Ha

It's good not to be a disaffected youth any longer.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2347569/

Song of the Sea

Gorgeously stylized, but too rote of a story.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865505/

Pride

In many respects, I've seen this film before, but it never hurts to see it again.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3169706/

The Way Way Back

I prefer Carell in his dramatic roles and Rockwell in his comedic roles, so this suited me fine.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1727388/

Restrepo

Label me blasé, but the images here did not move me to feel the fear these men felt.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1559549/

Foxcatcher

In this particular circumstance, I wonder if knowing zilch about the story would have been way, way better.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1100089/

Whiplash

I didn't want to bang on things around the house, but it did make me appreciate jazz a lot more.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582802/

Calvary

Resonant, powerful, unforgiving description of the Catholic Church in this day and age.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234003/

The Wolf of Wall Street

All the normal reasons to be wary of this film aside, at its heart it has heart (or at least wisdom).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/

The Grandmaster

Another in his long line of unrequited-love epics.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462900/ (Original title: Yi Dai Zong Shi)

The Railway Man

Ever since reading Unbroken, Japanese WWII POW war films are the only ones I can't stomach.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2058107/

The Skeleton Twins

Ending = crap crappity crap. Rest of this = mostly amusing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571249/

Le Week-End

Excellent job describing the mess of marriage, but the film shouldn't also be a mess.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2392326/

A Single Shot

It might be full of dread, but it's also full of cliches.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540741/

The One I Love

That is the most instructive and clarifying movie poster ever created.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2756032/

A Most Violent Year

Chandor is the master of the procedural reveal.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2937898/

Love Is Strange

While a sweet portrayal of aging love, thematically muddled.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2639344/

Fruitvale Station

It only being semi-Hollywood, I trust it as a realistic portrayal.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334649/

Predestination

I wish they hadn't followed the short story to a T.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535/

Peaky Blinders: Season 2

More soap-opera-y than last season, and not surprisingly, more fun to watch.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442560/

Nightcrawler

Something you really don't want - criminals with business acumen.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872718/

Kill the Messenger

Hollywood doesn't know how to create a film without bias. (Although, granted, what's the truth here?)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216491/

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

So much to love - my favorite parts were Fitz and the new media meta-ness of it all.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2392261/

Big Hero 6

Nothing is new. This one: Stargate meets The Iron Giant.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2245084/

Lucy

Mulefritters! 20% capacity is not the joke, it's that you'd gain knowledge out of the electrical ether from a chemical.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872732/

The Homesman

The term "feminist western" sounds like a post-feminist oxymoron.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2398231/