With a towering performance by David Oyelowo at its heart, Ava DuVernay's Selma is a riveting and thought-provoking portrait of the battle for civil rights in the American Deep South of the 1960s.
High-tech nerdlingers become high-tech superheroes with the help of an inflatable robot. Don't try this at home, kids.
Clint Eastwood shows no signs of slowing down or changing his political views in American Sniper, a well-made but broad tale of wartime heroism.
Three astounding leads and a director at the top of his game combine to create Foxcatcher, an eerie and brilliant tale of deception and bruised egos.
Ex Machina is an exceedingly smart and considerate sci-fi, creating believable tension around Alicia Vikander's all-too-believable AI.
With a worthy story to tell, the handsome Testament of Youth does a fine job of bringing Vera Brittain's memoirs to the big screen.
A powerful, hard-hitting and emotional ride of a film, superbly framed and exquisitely performed, this is worth every cent of the admission price.
PT Anderson and Thomas Pynchon deliver an amusingly trippy look at the underbelly of Americana, and it reeks of weed and paranoia. Can you dig it?
Witherspoon sheds pretense for a true story robbed of truth by a sickly over-earnestness that has one eye squarely on awards.