RatingT-MeterTitle | YearReview2/5 61% The Visit (2015)"The Visit does deliver clammy unease and scary jolts... But the found-footage device quickly becomes strained and irritating, and much of the comedy misfires. Not a disaster, then, but only a partial return to form. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Sep 13, 2015
3/5 56% Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)"Working with a bigger budget this time, returning director Wes Ball pumps up the action, delivering exhilarating sequences of flight and fight. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Sep 13, 2015
3/5 42% Irrational Man (2015)"It's a distinctly patchy affair, tightly sprung in places, limp in others... yet all the same there is something weirdly compelling about the. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Sep 13, 2015
3/5 23% Barely Lethal (2015)"There are some nifty one-liners, too, from fleeting, anti-Canadian jibe, 'Take back Bieber', to this surreal putdown, 'You may have them fooled, but you and I both know that you are sketchier than a 2am waffle house'. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Sep 5, 2015
3/5 43% No Escape (2015)"The Dwyers' point of view is very much a myopic Western-eye view of local events, but it is the's narrow focus on the panicky, bewildered Americans that makes it so breathtakingly gripping. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Sep 5, 2015
2/5 27% Amnesiac (2015)"The sight of a fur-coat-wearing Bosworth wielding a blood stained power tool is a striking visual coup... Yet for the most part the story is too slackly stretched to sustain the tension the needs to keep us gripped. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 31, 2015
3/5 42% We Are Your Friends (2015)"As Cole forages among the sounds of his everyday life in his quest for the one killer EDM track that will make his name, director Max Joseph gives the accompanying images real zest and zip. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 29, 2015
4/5 97% 45 Years"45 Years exposes the flaws beneath the tranquil surface of a long marriage with searching insight and deep compassion. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 29, 2015
2/5 27% Vacation (2015)"For the most part writer-directors Jonthan Goldstein and John Francis Daley seem to reckon what we will find hilariously funny is a steady stream of gross-out gags and even grosser paedophilia jokes. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
3/5 26% Child 44 (2015)"Get past some contrived plotting - and the needlessly thick Russian accents adopted by the mostly British cast - and this 1950s-set crime thriller is grimly fascinating. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
2/5 10% Good People (2014)"This low-rent crime thriller's London setting never feels convincing... and the's action-packed climax, which sees the couple fending off the bad 'uns using power tools, is even more far-fetched. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
3/5 75% Good Kill (2015)"The anguish etched on Hawke's face reveals the psychological toll of blowing up flesh and blood, not pixels. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
2/5 52% Woman in Gold (2015)"[A] fascinating true story... gets turned into an uneven mix of historical thriller, courtroom drama and odd-couple comedy. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
2/5 9% Fantastic Four (2015)"The drains the spark from four talented young actors with clunky dialogue and a crushingly dull narrative. The special effects aren't that special, either. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
3/5 63% The Water Diviner (2015)"Russell Crowe's well crafted if tonally uneven historical drama... [is] sometimes stirring, sometimes sentimental and sometimes far-fetched. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
2/5 18% Pixels (2015)"Adam Sandler reboots some nostalgically familiar 1980s arcade video games - and his noisome man-child persona - but pushes all the wrong buttons with this lame sci-fi action comedy. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
1/5 12% Absolutely Anything"The jokes are mostly mirthless, sub sit-com stuff, but one brief gag does raise a chuckle when Pegg's wish for a penis that women find exciting is swiftly followed by the addendum, 'Can I have one in white?' " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
4/5 68% The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)"A deliciously old-fashioned romp brimming with retro chic, and with a champagne cocktail's effervescent fizz. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
3/5 55% Paper Towns (2015)"The overall mood is safe rather than edgy, but what it does do very effectively is capture a particular quality of adolescent yearning... and Cara Delevingne's puckish charisma is perfect. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
83% While We're Young (2015)"Baumbach has satirical fun with both the younger duo's retro-chic poses and the older couple's delusions. He also stages some knockout farcical episodes. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 2, 2015
2/5 22% The Woman in Black 2 Angel of Death (2015)"When things go bump, director Tom Harper duly makes us jump on cue, but the patchy script ensures the scares don't have quite the same impact as before. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 2, 2015
2/5 27% The Wedding Ringer (2015)"Loudmouth Hart swears copiously, while the tubby Gad gets pitched into a series of undignified scrapes that usually end with damage to his genitals. Laughs, though, are few and far between. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 2, 2015
2/5 8% Hot Pursuit (2015)"Witherspoon and Vergara do have chemistry together, but a lack of decent gags means this buddy comedy vehicle is running on empty. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 2, 2015
92% Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015)"The opening stunt pretty much sums up the Mission: Impossible franchise: white-knuckle thrills teetering on the edge of absurdity. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 30, 2015
3/5 52% Boychoir (2015)"The script may be formulaic, but the ending hits some unexpectedly melancholy notes and the music - a mix of Handel, Britten, Tallis and Mendelssohn - always soars. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 26, 2015
3/5 46% Ted 2 (2015)"Ted 2 isn't as funny as its predecessor, but it still racks up an impressive tally of outrageous laughs. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 26, 2015
3/5 54% Maggie (2015)"The measured pace allows Schwarzengger to show unaccustomed emotional depths as the grief-stricken father and gives Breslin another chance to shine as the teenager whose mortality is cruelly written on her skin. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 26, 2015
5/5 98% Inside Out (2015)"Inside Out brings a young girl's growing pains to life with dazzling wit and tender wisdom. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 26, 2015
2/5 59% Southpaw (2015)"A boxing melodrama that pummels the viewer into submission with a one-two combo of brutal action inside the ring and relentless clichés everywhere else. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 24, 2015
3/5 49% Cake (2015)"The doesn't quite prevent sentiment seeping in before the end, but Aniston's deadpan comic timing as she delivers Claire's bitter put-downs and complaints is brilliant: the deliciously sour cherry on the cake. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 29, 2015
2/5 60% Three Night Stand (2015)"[The set-up] suggests we're going to get a frisky screwball farce, but with more regrets and recriminations than jokes, the outcome is a lot more downbeat and a lot less fun. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 28, 2015
4/5 34% Blackhat (2015)"Get over the shock of seeing Chris Hemsworth as a keyboard-clicking computer hacker rather than a hammer-heaving Marvel hero and Michael Mann's stylish cyber thriller Blackhat will soon have you gripped and intrigued. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
2/5 25% Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)"When Christian sweeps the demure Anastasia off her feet and into his world of penthouse-and-helicopter luxury and sadomasochistic, what lies in store is two hours-plus of glossy tedium. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
72% Trash (2015)"Adapting Andy Mulliagn's young-adult novel, screenwriter Richard Curtis and director Stephen Daldry strike a deft balance between escapism and grit. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
1/5 4% Vice (2015)"The acting ranges from amateurish (Childers) to bored (Willis, smirk barely disguising his lack of interest), the script gets bogged down in lumpy exposition, and the action is unexciting. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
83% Stretch (2014)"Stretch gets off to such a hectic, abrasive start that many viewers will wish to jump out immediately. Stick with [Patrick Wilson's frazzled chauffeur], though, and his surreal escapades turn out to be surprisingly entertaining. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
4/5 73% Inherent Vice (2015)"You might not have a clue what is going on; but enter into its freewheeling spirit and [the] turns out to be unexpectedly captivating, with a touching undertow of melancholy detectable beneath the off-kilter humour and bizarre plotting. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
46% The Gambler (2014)"Mark Wahlberg is intense and compelling... but his character's self-destructive behaviour strains the viewer's sympathy almost as much as it strains that of the people around him. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
99% Shaun the Sheep (2015)"The visual jokes come thick and fast. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
87% Mr. Holmes (2015)"The [film's] puzzles don't have the fiendish elegance of the best Holmes mysteries and their unravelling proceeds at an understandably gentle pace. Yet Sherlockians will still find much to relish. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
32% Entourage (2015)"Fans will... enjoy the glossy escapism of the boys' hedonistic escapades and the breezy banter. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
7% Accidental Love (2015)"[Following] Russell's Oscar-and-Bafta-winning streak of The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, the only awards ceremony [Accidental Love] is likely to sweep is the Razzies. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
54% Minions (2015)"The Minions' adventures don't stretch the Despicable Me formula particularly far, but there's still something irresistibly comic about their slapstick pratfalls, the macaronic gibberish they spout and, above all, their blithe bumbling innocence. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
38% She's Funny That Way (2015)"A deliciously daffy, unashamedly old-fashioned confection. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
89% Clouds of Sils Maria (2015)"Clouds of Sils Maria is talky and slow moving, yet the interplay of its leading women is as mesmerising as the strange weather phenomenon - a cloud bank pouring through an alpine pass - that gives the its title. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 15, 2015
93% Spy (2015)"A rib-tickling espionage spoof that gives a confident female-centred spin to the traditionally ultra-masculine spy movie genre. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 15, 2015
71% Jurassic World (2015)"Pratt is shaping up as the go-to-guy when Hollywood needs someone equally handy with a quip, a firearm and a vintage motorcycle... Howard's [is] an even more impressive feat given that she has to sprint away from a rapacious dinosaur in high heels. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 15, 2015
4/5 81% Testament Of Youth (2015)"A superb feature adaptation that more than measures up to the beloved five-part BBC TV series from 1979. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted May 23, 2015
5/5 90% A Most Violent Year (2015)"There's less violence than you would expect, given the's title, but the scenes of moral suspense prove just as breathtaking as the episodes of physical jeopardy. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted May 23, 2015
4/5 88% Foxcatcher (2014)" Foxcatcher pins the viewer to the mat with its emotionally bruising tale of class, ambition and the pursuit of sporting excellence. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted May 23, 2015
3/5 56% Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)"Working with a bigger budget this time, returning director Wes Ball pumps up the action, delivering exhilarating sequences of flight and fight. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Sep 13, 2015
3/5 42% Irrational Man (2015)"It's a distinctly patchy affair, tightly sprung in places, limp in others... yet all the same there is something weirdly compelling about the. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Sep 13, 2015
3/5 23% Barely Lethal (2015)"There are some nifty one-liners, too, from fleeting, anti-Canadian jibe, 'Take back Bieber', to this surreal putdown, 'You may have them fooled, but you and I both know that you are sketchier than a 2am waffle house'. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Sep 5, 2015
3/5 43% No Escape (2015)"The Dwyers' point of view is very much a myopic Western-eye view of local events, but it is the's narrow focus on the panicky, bewildered Americans that makes it so breathtakingly gripping. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Sep 5, 2015
2/5 27% Amnesiac (2015)"The sight of a fur-coat-wearing Bosworth wielding a blood stained power tool is a striking visual coup... Yet for the most part the story is too slackly stretched to sustain the tension the needs to keep us gripped. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 31, 2015
3/5 42% We Are Your Friends (2015)"As Cole forages among the sounds of his everyday life in his quest for the one killer EDM track that will make his name, director Max Joseph gives the accompanying images real zest and zip. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 29, 2015
4/5 97% 45 Years"45 Years exposes the flaws beneath the tranquil surface of a long marriage with searching insight and deep compassion. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 29, 2015
2/5 27% Vacation (2015)"For the most part writer-directors Jonthan Goldstein and John Francis Daley seem to reckon what we will find hilariously funny is a steady stream of gross-out gags and even grosser paedophilia jokes. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
3/5 26% Child 44 (2015)"Get past some contrived plotting - and the needlessly thick Russian accents adopted by the mostly British cast - and this 1950s-set crime thriller is grimly fascinating. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
2/5 10% Good People (2014)"This low-rent crime thriller's London setting never feels convincing... and the's action-packed climax, which sees the couple fending off the bad 'uns using power tools, is even more far-fetched. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
3/5 75% Good Kill (2015)"The anguish etched on Hawke's face reveals the psychological toll of blowing up flesh and blood, not pixels. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
2/5 52% Woman in Gold (2015)"[A] fascinating true story... gets turned into an uneven mix of historical thriller, courtroom drama and odd-couple comedy. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
2/5 9% Fantastic Four (2015)"The drains the spark from four talented young actors with clunky dialogue and a crushingly dull narrative. The special effects aren't that special, either. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
3/5 63% The Water Diviner (2015)"Russell Crowe's well crafted if tonally uneven historical drama... [is] sometimes stirring, sometimes sentimental and sometimes far-fetched. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
2/5 18% Pixels (2015)"Adam Sandler reboots some nostalgically familiar 1980s arcade video games - and his noisome man-child persona - but pushes all the wrong buttons with this lame sci-fi action comedy. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
1/5 12% Absolutely Anything"The jokes are mostly mirthless, sub sit-com stuff, but one brief gag does raise a chuckle when Pegg's wish for a penis that women find exciting is swiftly followed by the addendum, 'Can I have one in white?' " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
4/5 68% The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)"A deliciously old-fashioned romp brimming with retro chic, and with a champagne cocktail's effervescent fizz. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
3/5 55% Paper Towns (2015)"The overall mood is safe rather than edgy, but what it does do very effectively is capture a particular quality of adolescent yearning... and Cara Delevingne's puckish charisma is perfect. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 23, 2015
83% While We're Young (2015)"Baumbach has satirical fun with both the younger duo's retro-chic poses and the older couple's delusions. He also stages some knockout farcical episodes. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 2, 2015
2/5 22% The Woman in Black 2 Angel of Death (2015)"When things go bump, director Tom Harper duly makes us jump on cue, but the patchy script ensures the scares don't have quite the same impact as before. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 2, 2015
2/5 27% The Wedding Ringer (2015)"Loudmouth Hart swears copiously, while the tubby Gad gets pitched into a series of undignified scrapes that usually end with damage to his genitals. Laughs, though, are few and far between. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 2, 2015
2/5 8% Hot Pursuit (2015)"Witherspoon and Vergara do have chemistry together, but a lack of decent gags means this buddy comedy vehicle is running on empty. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Aug 2, 2015
92% Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015)"The opening stunt pretty much sums up the Mission: Impossible franchise: white-knuckle thrills teetering on the edge of absurdity. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 30, 2015
3/5 52% Boychoir (2015)"The script may be formulaic, but the ending hits some unexpectedly melancholy notes and the music - a mix of Handel, Britten, Tallis and Mendelssohn - always soars. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 26, 2015
3/5 46% Ted 2 (2015)"Ted 2 isn't as funny as its predecessor, but it still racks up an impressive tally of outrageous laughs. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 26, 2015
3/5 54% Maggie (2015)"The measured pace allows Schwarzengger to show unaccustomed emotional depths as the grief-stricken father and gives Breslin another chance to shine as the teenager whose mortality is cruelly written on her skin. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 26, 2015
5/5 98% Inside Out (2015)"Inside Out brings a young girl's growing pains to life with dazzling wit and tender wisdom. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 26, 2015
2/5 59% Southpaw (2015)"A boxing melodrama that pummels the viewer into submission with a one-two combo of brutal action inside the ring and relentless clichés everywhere else. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jul 24, 2015
3/5 49% Cake (2015)"The doesn't quite prevent sentiment seeping in before the end, but Aniston's deadpan comic timing as she delivers Claire's bitter put-downs and complaints is brilliant: the deliciously sour cherry on the cake. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 29, 2015
2/5 60% Three Night Stand (2015)"[The set-up] suggests we're going to get a frisky screwball farce, but with more regrets and recriminations than jokes, the outcome is a lot more downbeat and a lot less fun. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 28, 2015
4/5 34% Blackhat (2015)"Get over the shock of seeing Chris Hemsworth as a keyboard-clicking computer hacker rather than a hammer-heaving Marvel hero and Michael Mann's stylish cyber thriller Blackhat will soon have you gripped and intrigued. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
2/5 25% Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)"When Christian sweeps the demure Anastasia off her feet and into his world of penthouse-and-helicopter luxury and sadomasochistic, what lies in store is two hours-plus of glossy tedium. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
72% Trash (2015)"Adapting Andy Mulliagn's young-adult novel, screenwriter Richard Curtis and director Stephen Daldry strike a deft balance between escapism and grit. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
1/5 4% Vice (2015)"The acting ranges from amateurish (Childers) to bored (Willis, smirk barely disguising his lack of interest), the script gets bogged down in lumpy exposition, and the action is unexciting. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
83% Stretch (2014)"Stretch gets off to such a hectic, abrasive start that many viewers will wish to jump out immediately. Stick with [Patrick Wilson's frazzled chauffeur], though, and his surreal escapades turn out to be surprisingly entertaining. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
4/5 73% Inherent Vice (2015)"You might not have a clue what is going on; but enter into its freewheeling spirit and [the] turns out to be unexpectedly captivating, with a touching undertow of melancholy detectable beneath the off-kilter humour and bizarre plotting. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
46% The Gambler (2014)"Mark Wahlberg is intense and compelling... but his character's self-destructive behaviour strains the viewer's sympathy almost as much as it strains that of the people around him. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
99% Shaun the Sheep (2015)"The visual jokes come thick and fast. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
87% Mr. Holmes (2015)"The [film's] puzzles don't have the fiendish elegance of the best Holmes mysteries and their unravelling proceeds at an understandably gentle pace. Yet Sherlockians will still find much to relish. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
32% Entourage (2015)"Fans will... enjoy the glossy escapism of the boys' hedonistic escapades and the breezy banter. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
7% Accidental Love (2015)"[Following] Russell's Oscar-and-Bafta-winning streak of The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, the only awards ceremony [Accidental Love] is likely to sweep is the Razzies. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
54% Minions (2015)"The Minions' adventures don't stretch the Despicable Me formula particularly far, but there's still something irresistibly comic about their slapstick pratfalls, the macaronic gibberish they spout and, above all, their blithe bumbling innocence. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
38% She's Funny That Way (2015)"A deliciously daffy, unashamedly old-fashioned confection. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 27, 2015
89% Clouds of Sils Maria (2015)"Clouds of Sils Maria is talky and slow moving, yet the interplay of its leading women is as mesmerising as the strange weather phenomenon - a cloud bank pouring through an alpine pass - that gives the its title. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 15, 2015
93% Spy (2015)"A rib-tickling espionage spoof that gives a confident female-centred spin to the traditionally ultra-masculine spy movie genre. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 15, 2015
71% Jurassic World (2015)"Pratt is shaping up as the go-to-guy when Hollywood needs someone equally handy with a quip, a firearm and a vintage motorcycle... Howard's [is] an even more impressive feat given that she has to sprint away from a rapacious dinosaur in high heels. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted Jun 15, 2015
4/5 81% Testament Of Youth (2015)"A superb feature adaptation that more than measures up to the beloved five-part BBC TV series from 1979. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted May 23, 2015
5/5 90% A Most Violent Year (2015)"There's less violence than you would expect, given the's title, but the scenes of moral suspense prove just as breathtaking as the episodes of physical jeopardy. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted May 23, 2015
4/5 88% Foxcatcher (2014)" Foxcatcher pins the viewer to the mat with its emotionally bruising tale of class, ambition and the pursuit of sporting excellence. " ‐ Movie TalkPosted May 23, 2015
