American Hustle
David O. Russell's ABSCAM spinoff is the wondrous sum of Amy Adams and Christian Bale.
Ida
Paweł Pawlikowski's brief story about a Polish nun is a haunting Holocaust remembrance.
The Asphalt Jungle
John Huston's noir is a deft pastiche of urban losers headed nowhere fast.
In Fear
British director Jeremy Lovering's horror thriller never gets out of the woods.
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Coen Brothers take a soft and highly melancholy look into the New York folk scene.
Enough Said
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini are two adults in love — maybe.
Mamma Roma
Pasolini's second feature, powered by Anna Magnani, is an ode to Rome's dispossessed.
Berberian Sound Studio
A little warped sound goes a long way in a British horror film set in the Italian 1970s.
Calvary
Brendan Gleeson is typically engaging as an Irish Catholic priest faced with a menacing dilemma.
Necessary Americana
Decades apart, two films that dig into the mixed-up heart of being American
Nancy, Please
Andrew Semans plays sinister chords in a jagged little move about paranoia.