April 2014

 1.

47 Ronin (2013)

  5,5/10  

A band of samurai set out to avenge the death and dishonor of their master at the hands of a ruthless shogun. (118 mins.)

Director: Carl Rinsch

Stars: Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ko Shibasaki, Tadanobu Asano

 

2.

Tusen ganger god natt (2013)

  6,5/10  

Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her... (117 mins.)

Director: Erik Poppe

Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Juliette Binoche, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Chloë Annett

 

3.

Afflicted (2013)

  6/10  

Two best friends see their trip of a lifetime take a dark turn when one of them is struck by a mysterious affliction. Now, in a foreign land, they race to uncover the source before it consumes him completely. (85 mins.)

Director: Derek Lee, Clif Prowse

Stars: Clif Prowse, Derek Lee, Michael Gill, Jason Lee

 

4.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

  5/10  

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm. (119 mins.)

Director: Adam McKay

Stars: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell

 

5.

Serra Pelada (2013)

  6/10  

1980s. Juliano and Joaquin are best friends who get excited when learning of Serra Pelada, the largest open pit gold mine decides to leave from St...

Director: Heitor Dhalia

Stars: Wagner Moura, Sophie Charlotte, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juliano Cazarré

 

6.

Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)

  5,5/10  

A strait-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy-wife... (91 mins.)

Director: Geoff Moore, David Posamentier

Stars: Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Monaghan, Jane Fonda

 

7.

Blood Ties (2013)

  7/10  

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s. (127 mins.)

Director: Guillaume Canet

Stars: Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis

 

8.

Les beaux jours (2013)

  5,5/10  

The retired dentist Caroline attends a class for computer users. Although she is married, she falls in love with her significantly younger lecturer... (94 mins.)

Director: Marion Vernoux

Stars: Fanny Ardant, Laurent Lafitte, Patrick Chesnais, Jean-François Stévenin

 

9.

Camp Takota (2014)

  5,5/10  

With her personal and professional life in shambles, Elise ends up having to take a job as a counselor at her old summer camp... (95 mins.)

Director: Chris Riedell, Nick Riedell

Stars: Grace Helbig, Chester See, Hannah Hart, Mamrie Hart

 

10.

Casse-tête chinois (2013)

  7/10  

A 40-year-old father of two, still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well. (117 mins.)

Director: Cédric Klapisch

Stars: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Cécile De France, Kelly Reilly

 

11.

Kauboji (2013)

  6/10  

(107 mins.)

Director: Tomislav Mrsic

Stars: Sasa Anocic, Zivko Anocic, Matija Antolic, Hrvoje Barisic

 

12.

Dom Hemingway (2013)

  6/10  

After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed. (93 mins.)

Director: Richard Shepard

Stars: Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke

 

13.

Enemy (2013)

  6/10  

A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie. (90 mins.)

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini

 

14.

Finsterworld (2013)

  6/10  

(91 mins.)

Director: Frauke Finsterwalder

Stars: Christoph Bach, Margit Carstensen, Jakub Gierszal, Corinna Harfouch

 

15.

Grudge Match (2013)

  6/10  

A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match. (113 mins.)

Director: Peter Segal

Stars: Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Kim Basinger, Alan Arkin

 

16.

Hateship Loveship (2013)

  6,5/10  

A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict. (104 mins.)

Director: Liza Johnson

Stars: Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld, Nick Nolte

 

17.

Hide Your Smiling Faces (2013)

  6,5/10  

After a neighborhood tragedy, two adolescent brothers confront changing relationships, the mystery of nature, and their own mortality. (81 mins.)

Director: Daniel Patrick Carbone

Stars: Ryan Jones, Nathan Varnson, Colm O'Leary, Thomas Cruz

 

18.

Líbánky (2013)

  6/10  

(92 mins.)

Director: Jan Hrebejk

Stars: Anna Geislerová, Stanislav Majer, Jirí Cerný, Borivoj Cermak

 

19.

I Used to Be Darker (2013)

  5,5/10  

A runaway seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore and finds their marriage ending and her cousin in crisis. In the days that follow, the family struggles to let go of the past while searching for new things to hold onto. (90 mins.)

Director: Matthew Porterfield

Stars: Deragh Campbell, Hannah Gross, Ned Oldham, Kim Taylor

 

20.

Ida (2013)

  7/10  

Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation. (80 mins.)

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Stars: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela

 

21.

In Your Eyes (2014)

  5/10  

In the frozen East Coast winter, Rebecca is withering away in a life of cocktail parties and lonely nights as the sheltered... (105 mins.)

Director: Brin Hill

Stars: Jennifer Grey, Nikki Reed, Zoe Kazan, Steve Howey

 

22.

W imie... (2013)

  6/10  

Adam is a Catholic priest who discovered his calling as a servant of God at the relatively late age of 21... (102 mins.)

Director: Malgorzata Szumowska

Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Lukasz Simlat, Maja Ostaszewska

 

23.

Joe (2013)

  7,5/10  

An ex-con, who is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a 15-year-old boy and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin. (118 mins.)

Director: David Gordon Green

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter, Ronnie Gene Blevins

 

24.

Mr. Pip (2012)

  6/10  

As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village. (116 mins.)

Director: Andrew Adamson

Stars: Hugh Laurie, Kerry Fox, Eka Darville, Xzannjah Matsi

 

25.

One Chance (2013)

  5,5/10  

The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- "Britain's Got Talent". (103 mins.)

Director: David Frankel

Stars: James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Walters, Colm Meaney

 

26.

Ride Along (2014)

  5/10  

Security guard Ben must prove himself to his girlfriend's brother, top cop James. He rides along James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta. (99 mins.)

Director: Tim Story

Stars: Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter, John Leguizamo

 

27.

Salvo (2013)

  5,5/10  

Salvo is a body guard and hit man for a mafioso. After foiling an attack on his employer, Salvo hunts down the man who organised it and encounters the man's blind sister. She causes Salvo to question himself and his existence. (110 mins.)

Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza

Stars: Saleh Bakri, Luigi Lo Cascio, Sara Serraiocco, Giuditta Perriera

 

28.

Sein letztes Rennen (2013)

  6/10  

(114 mins.)

Director: Kilian Riedhof

Stars: Dieter Hallervorden, Tatja Seibt, Heike Makatsch, Heinz W. Krückeberg

 

29.

Quai d'Orsay (2013)

  5,5/10  

Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is tall and impressive, a man with style, attractive to women. He also happens... (113 mins.)

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Raphaël Personnaz, Niels Arestrup, Bruno Raffaelli

 

30.

Fune wo amu (2013)

  6/10  

Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary... (134 mins.)

Director: Yûya Ishii

Stars: Ryûhei Matsuda, Aoi Miyazaki, Jô Odagiri, Kaoru Kobayashi

 

31.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

  6/10  

The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring. (161 mins.)

Director: Peter Jackson

Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott

 

32.

The Immigrant (2013)

  7/10  

On the mean streets of Manhattan, Ewa falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces her into prostitution. (120 mins.)

Director: James Gray

Stars: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk

 

33.

L'image manquante (2013 Documentary)

  6/10  

Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979. (92 mins.)

Director: Rithy Panh

Stars: Randal Douc

 

34.

The Pirate Fairy (2014)

   5,5/10  

When Zarina steals Pixie Hollow's Blue Pixie Dust and flies away, Tinker Bell and her friends sets on a journey to get them back. (78 mins.)

Director: Peggy Holmes

Stars: Mae Whitman, Christina Hendricks, Tom Hiddleston, Lucy Liu

 

35.

Al midan (2013 Documentary)

  7/10  

A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience. (108 mins.)

Director: Jehane Noujaim

Stars: Ahmed Hassan, Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour, Ramy Essam

 

36.

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)

  6/10  

A 10-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute. (105 mins.)

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Maillet, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie

 

37.

Thor: The Dark World (2013)

  4,5/10  

When Jane Foster is possessed by a great power, Thor must protect her from a new threat of old times: the Dark Elves. (112 mins.)

Director: Alan Taylor

Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård

 

38.

La Vénus à la fourrure (2013)

  6/10  

An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production. (96 mins.)

Director: Roman Polanski

Stars: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric

 

39.

Vic + Flo ont vu un ours (2013)

  6/10  

Winner 2013 Silver Bear (Alfred Bauer Prize) Berlin International Film Festival. Vic + Flow Saw a Bear... (95 mins.)

Director: Denis Côté

Stars: Pierrette Robitaille, Romane Bohringer, Marc-André Grondin, Marie Brassard

 

40.

Viva la libertà (2013)

  6/10  

(94 mins.)

Director: Roberto Andò

Stars: Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Michela Cescon

 

41.

So-won (2013)

   5,5/10  

Tragedy of a 8 year old girl coping with a gruesome rape damaging her internally and affecting emotionally... (122 mins.)

Director: Joon-ik Lee

Stars: Hae-suk Kim, Sang-ho Kim, Mi-ran Ra, Kyung-gu Sol