Maj 2013

1.

A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

  5/10  

 John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working to prevent a nuclear-weapons heist, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces. (98 mins.)

Director: John Moore

Stars: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

2.

A Late Quartet (2012)

  6,5/10  

Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust. (105 mins.)

Director: Yaron Zilberman

Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir

3.

Después de Lucía (2012)

  6,5/10  

Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind. (93 mins.)

Director: Michel Franco

Stars: Tessa Ia, Gonzalo Vega Jr., Tamara Yazbek, Hernán Mendoza

4.

Beautiful Creatures (2013)

  6/10  

Ethan longs to escape his small Southern town. He meets a mysterious new girl, Lena. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town. (124 mins.)

Director: Richard LaGravenese

Stars: Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Alden Ehrenreich

5.

Camille redouble (2012)

  5,5/10  

Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student.... (115 mins.)

Director: Noémie Lvovsky

Stars: Noémie Lvovsky, Samir Guesmi, Judith Chemla, India Hair

6.

Nae-ga sal-in-beom-i-da (2012)

  6/10  

After the statute of limitation expires on the murders he has committed, Lee Du-seok publishes an autobiography... (119 mins.)

Director: Byeong-gil Jeong

Stars: Won-yeong Choi, Jang Gwang, Jae-yeong Jeong, Eun-ji Jo

7.

Alceste à bicyclette (2013)

  5,5/10  

A once great actor, Serge Tanneur (Fabrice Luchini), has retired from the limelight. Too much pressure meant that one day... (104 mins.)

Director: Philippe Le Guay

Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Lambert Wilson, Maya Sansa, Camille Japy

8.

Foxfire (2012)

  5,5/10  

Set in the 1950s, a a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang. (143 mins.)

Director: Laurent Cantet

Stars: Raven Adamson, Katie Coseni, Madeleine Bisson, Claire Mazerolle

9.

Días de pesca (2012)

  6,5/10  

Marco Tucci is the standard tourist type, on his way to Puerto Deseado where he intends to fish for sharks... (77 mins.)

Director: Carlos Sorin

Stars: Alejandro Awada, Victoria Almeida, Oscar Ayala, Diego Caballero

10.

Graceland (2012)

  6,5/10  

When a kidnapping goes wrong, a desperate father risks everything to save his daughter from the men who hold her captive. (84 mins.)

Director: Ron Morales

Stars: Arnold Reyes, Menggie Cobarrubias, Dido De La Paz, Leon Miguel

11.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

  4/10  

Hansel & Gretel are bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past. (88 mins.)

Director: Tommy Wirkola

Stars: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Peter Stormare, Famke Janssen

12.

Le grand soir (2012)

  5/10  

The film tells the story of 2 brothers. One punk, one salesman. The salesman get laid off, and slowly becomes a punk like his brother. (92 mins.)

Director: Gustave Kervern, Benoît Delépine

Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel, Brigitte Fontaine, Areski Belkacem

13.

Maniac (2012)

  6,5/10  

The owner of a mannequin shop develops a dangerous obsession with a young artist. (89 mins.)

Director: Franck Khalfoun

Stars: Elijah Wood, America Olivo, Nora Arnezeder, Liane Balaban

14.

Movie 43 (2013)

  5/10  

A series of interconnected short films follows a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. (94 mins.)

Director: Bob Odenkirk, Elizabeth Banks

Stars: Emma Stone, Stephen Merchant, Richard Gere, Liev Schreiber

15.

Oblawa (2012)

  5,5/10  

Late autumn 1943. Wydra (Otter), a Polish partisan, catches an informer in a nearby village and brings him to his starving unit in the forest. A thrilling adventure finds desperate times calling for desperate measures in wartime... (96 mins.)

Director: Marcin Krzysztalowicz

Stars: Marcin Dorocinski, Maciej Stuhr, Sonia Bohosiewicz, Weronika Rosati

16.

Parker (2013)

  4/10  

A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist. (118 mins.)

Director: Taylor Hackford

Stars: Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis, Nick Nolte

17.

Phil Spector (2013 TV Movie)

  6/10  

A drama centered on the relationship between Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while the music business legend was on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson. (92 mins.)

Director: David Mamet

Stars: Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Tambor, Chiwetel Ejiofor

18.

Quartet (2012)

     5,5/10  

At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents. (98 mins.)

Director: Dustin Hoffman

Stars: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay

19.

Safe Haven (2013)

  6/10  

A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her. (115 mins.)

Director: Lasse Hallström

Stars: Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, Cobie Smulders, David Lyons

20.

Side Effects (2013)

  7/10  

A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects. (106 mins.)

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Stars: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones

21.

Starlet (2012)

  6,5/10  

An unlikely friendship forms between 21 year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale. (103 mins.)

Director: Sean Baker

Stars: Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Boonee, Stella Maeve

22.

Mer eller mindre mann (2012)

  5,5/10  

(75 mins.)

Director: Martin Lund

Stars: Henrik Rafaelsen, Solvei Grimen Fosse, Janne Heltberg, Per Kjerstad

23.

La migliore offerta (2013)

  6/10  

A story centered on an eccentric art auctioneer and his obsession with an heiress/collector. (124 mins.)

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Stars: Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Donald Sutherland, Sylvia Hoeks

24.

El cuerpo (2012)

  6,5/10  

A detective searches for the body of a femme fatale which has gone missing from a morgue. (108 mins.)

Director: Oriol Paulo

Stars: Belén Rueda, Hugo Silva, Aura Garrido, José Coronado

25.

The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)

  7,5/10  

Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial. (111 mins.)

Director: Felix Van Groeningen

Stars: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert Van Rampelberg

26.

The Company You Keep (2012)

  6,5/10  

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity. (121 mins.)

Director: Robert Redford

Stars: Robert Redford, Brit Marling, Stanley Tucci, Nick Nolte

27.

Yi dai zong shi (2013)

  5,5/10  

The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee. (123 mins.)

Director: Kar Wai Wong

Stars: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang, Jin Zhang, Chen Chang

28.

The Host (2013)

  4,5/10  

When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about, proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world. (125 mins.)

Director: Andrew Niccol

Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, Jake Abel, Diane Kruger

29.

Le guetteur (2012)

  5/10  

A detective hunts for the marksman who foiled the plan to catch a notorious team of bank robbers. (89 mins.)

Director: Michele Placido

Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet, Francis Renaud

30.

The Lords of Salem (2012)

  3,5/10  

Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record -- a "gift from the Lords." The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts? (101 mins.)

Director: Rob Zombie

Stars: Sheri Moon Zombie, Meg Foster, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips

31.

The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

  8/10  

A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective. (140 mins.)

Director: Derek Cianfrance

Stars: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Anthony Pizza

32.

The Story of Luke (2012)

  6/10  

Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn't taking no for an answer.

Director: Alonso Mayo

Stars: Cary Elwes, Seth Green, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Al Sapienza

33.

To the Wonder (2012)

  6,5/10  

After visiting Mont Saint-Michel, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Marina meets a priest and fellow exile, who is struggling with his vocation, while Neil renews his ties with a childhood friend, Jane. (112 mins.)

Director: Terrence Malick

Stars: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams

34.

Upstream Color (2013)

  6,5/10  

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives. (96 mins.)

Director: Shane Carruth

Stars: Amy Seimetz, Frank Mosley, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig

35.

Warm Bodies (2013)

  6/10  

After R (a highly unusual zombie) saves Julie from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world. (98 mins.)

Director: Jonathan Levine

Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Analeigh Tipton

36.

Zaytoun (2012)

  6/10  

Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home. (110 mins.)

Director: Eran Riklis

Stars: Stephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Ali Suliman, Alice Taglioni