Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

[7] It's the future and an alien race has just about taken over all of Europe and Asia. Tom Cruise enters this scenario as a cowardly military spokesperson forced into the front lines of combat by a shit-if-I-care general (Brendan…
50/50 (2011)

50/50 (2011)

[6] The title of this movie refers to the chances of survival for its main character, Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Adam's life and all his relationships are turned upside down when he learns he has cancer. I'm glad the movie is…
The Dance of Reality (2014)

The Dance of Reality (2014)

[5] The Dance of Reality is the first film in decades from well-loved cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain). The film is a quasi-autobiography from the filmmaker, covering his childhood in a Chilean coastal town. Jodorowsky is…
Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014)

Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014)

[8] "For me, movies are an art. More than an industry. As essential to the human soul as painting, as literature, as poetry... Movies are that for me…" Like Lost in La Mancha, a chronicle of Terry Gilliam's ill-fated attempt…
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

[7] This sequel taps into two powerful currents of audience identification: the love between parents and children, and the love between people and animals. You can approach these with cloying calculation, as many family films do, or you can attack…
Maleficent (2014)

Maleficent (2014)

[7] Angelina Jolie headlines in this pleasantly surprising revisionist version of Disney's Sleeping Beauty. Jolie plays Maleficent, the dark fairy villain of the original fairytale. But in this new version of the story scripted by Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the…
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

[6] Seth MacFarlane (creator of The Family Guy) both directs and stars in this send-up of the American Western. MacFarlane is plenty charismatic to carry a movie and he has great chemistry with leading lady Charlize Theron. Even though her character…
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

[8] X-Men: Days of Future Past brings back most of the cast from the Bryan Singer films (X-Men and X2) and merges them with the cast of Matthew Vaughn's First Class for a storyline involving time-travel and the mutants' desperate…
Godzilla (2014)

Godzilla (2014)

[7] I'm always on the lookout for a good monster movie, and Godzilla is one of the most legendary monsters in movie history, right? But he's still not a sure thing. We all remember the Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich…
Neighbors (2014)

Neighbors (2014)

[6] A college fraternity moves in next door to a married couple with a new baby. Shenanigans ensue when the two households try everything they can think of to get the other party to move. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne…