The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

[6] Director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) takes us once more to the Marigold well, reuniting all the original cast members and throwing Richard Gere into the mix. Gere plays a mysterious American who may or may not be a financial inspector…
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)

[7] John Madden, the director of Shakespeare in Love, serves up an adaptation of Debora Moggach's novel about an eclectic group of aging Brits who manage to turn their lives around for the better at a rundown hotel in India. I couldn't…
Nebraska (2013)

Nebraska (2013)

[6] Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt) directs from a script by Bob Nelson this father/son road trip story about a senile old man who mistakenly thinks he's won a Publisher's Sweepstakes and insists on getting to Lincoln, Nebraska, to pick up his…
The Revenant (2015)

The Revenant (2015)

[8] Hot off his Best Director Oscar for Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu delivers another astonishing directorial effort. The Revenant is shot entirely outdoors with available lighting, capturing the story of an 1820s fur trader (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is viciously mauled by a…
The Lords of Salem (2013)

The Lords of Salem (2013)

[8] I haven't particularly liked any Rob Zombie movies until this one, which is strange because his devoted fans -- by and large -- detest this movie. The Lords of Salem features masterful style and cinematic execution, often reminding me more of…
Behind the Candleabra (2013)

Behind the Candleabra (2013)

[7] Michael Douglas plays Liberace for director Steven Soderbergh in this fast-paced tragi-romantic-dark comedy about the famed pianist's five-year relationship with a man forty years his senior. Matt Damon plays young Scott Thorson, the naive pretty boy who falls under Liberace's spell.…
Chained (2012)

Chained (2012)

[7] Director Jennifer Lynch (Boxing Helena) explores the relationship between a serial killer (Vincent D'Onofrio) and a young boy he kidnaps and raises to follow in his footsteps. Lynch keeps the film anchored in a dual character study and, despite a modest…
The Hateful Eight (2015)

The Hateful Eight (2015)

[8] Quentin Tarantino's eighth film (because he's counting) is a three-hour long claustrophobic western about eight characters holed up in a lodge during a snowstorm who all have reason to kill one another. Leading the ensemble cast are Kurt Russell as a…
The Danish Girl (2015)

The Danish Girl (2015)

[8] Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) directs this adaptation of David Ebershoff's novel, based loosely on the life of Lili Elbe, one of the first people ever to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) is outstanding as, at…
Flight (2012)

Flight (2012)

[6] Denzel Washington stars in this Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future) film about an airplane pilot who makes a 'miracle landing' after a mid-air collision, saving over a hundred lives from almost certain death. But here's the rub: he's…