Fish Tank
Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender and director Andrea Arnold produce a masterpiece.
Looper
Time travelers Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis are armed and sqaundered.
Amour
Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva make death a masterpiece.
The Master
Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman power a study of power, and brokenness.
Exit
Marek Polgar invents a city some of whose residents believe they're also made up.
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
The best romantic comedy can come from small and precarious places.
Paulette
When you're old, broke and angry, blame immigrants and sell drugs.
Only God Forgives
Nicolas Winding Refn goes east into Thailand, where very bad things happen.
The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann's take on Fitzgerald is delicious eye candy, but little more.
Monsters
How do you undo promising sci-fi? By adding implausible romance and bad talk.
Bad Lieutenant
Abel Ferrara's standout effort has less to do with cops than the allure of the abyss.
Iron Man 3
The Iron Man franchise is slightly revived, but that isn't saying much.