Dave Boyle's quirky neo-noir gets its punch from Ayako Fujitani and Pepe Serna.

Andrew Bujalski pokes gentle fun at fitness culture while doing romantic comedy a favor.

There's a Scarlet Letter admonishment built into David Robert Mitchell's mysterious horror tale.

Craig Zobel's dystopian thriller is elevated by the controlled genius of Chiwetel Ejiofor.

H8RZ, or "haters," takes high school connivance to the outer limits and beyond.

Yann Demange provides a powerful, at times surreal vision of Belfast at the height of The Troubles.

Noah Baumbach hits some true notes in a New York comedy about generational confusion..

This remarkable look at the Soviet hockey dynasty of the 1970s and 80s is also a passion play.

New Zealander John MacLean constructs a brooding Western from a host of quirky parts.

Andrey Zvyagintsev's deeply moving account of a Russian life in tatters is high on fatalism.

American sniper Chris Kyle is portrayed as a simple and direct man, to Clint Eastwood's credit.

Bradley King's supernatural thriller has a good idea but its characters soon find themselves boxed in.