Februar 2015

A Most Violent Year (2014)

  7,5/10  

In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history. (125 mins.)

Director: J.C. Chandor

Stars: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Alessandro Nivola

2.

American Sniper (2014)

  7/10  

Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind. (132 mins.)

Director: Clint Eastwood

Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis

3.

Die geliebten Schwestern (2014)

  5,5/10  

The aristocratic sisters Charlotte and Caroline both fall in love with the controversial young writer and hothead Friedrich Schiller... (138 mins.)

Director: Dominik Graf

Stars: Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius, Claudia Messner

4.

Big Hero 6 (2014)

  7/10  

The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes. (102 mins.)

Director: Don Hall, Chris Williams

Stars: Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Jamie Chung, T.J. Miller

5.

Bodybuilder (2014)

  5,5/10  

Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes... (100 mins.)

Director: Roschdy Zem

Stars: Vincent Rottiers, Yolin François Gauvin, Marina Foïs, Nicolas Duvauchelle

6.

Respire (2014)

  6/10  

It is tale of two teenage girls who develop an intense and dangerous friendship. Charlie is a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt... (91 mins.)

Director: Mélanie Laurent

Stars: Joséphine Japy, Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Carré, Claire Keim

7.

Cake (2014)

  6/10  

Claire becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group while grappling with her own, very raw personal tragedy. (102 mins.)

Director: Daniel Barnz

Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington

8.

Citizenfour (2014 Documentary)

   5,5/10  

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. (114 mins.)

Director: Laura Poitras

Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum

9.

Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014)

  7/10  

In Colombia, a young surfer meets the woman of his dreams - and then he meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar. (120 mins.)

Director: Andrea Di Stefano

Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Benicio Del Toro, Brady Corbet, Claudia Traisac

10.

Finding Vivian Maier (2013 Documentary)

  6/10  

A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers. (83 mins.)

Director: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel

Stars: Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Daniel Arnaud, Simon Amédé

11.

Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

  5,5/10  

A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness. (120 mins.)

Director: Peter Chelsom

Stars: Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Tracy Ann Oberman, Jean Reno

12.

Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

  6/10  

Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme. (108 mins.)

Director: Sean Anders

Stars: Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston

13.

Inherent Vice (2014)

  7/10  

In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend. (148 mins.)

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston

14.

Kill the Messenger (2014)

  6/10  

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after... (112 mins.)

Director: Michael Cuesta

Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo

15.

Laggies (2014)

  6/10  

In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad. (99 mins.)

Director: Lynn Shelton

Stars: Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell, Mark Webber

16.

Little Accidents (2014)

   6,5/10  

In a small American town still living in the shadow of a terrible coal mine accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws together a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy in a web of secrets. (105 mins.)

Director: Sara Colangelo

Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook, Jacob Lofland, Josh Lucas

17.

Maïna (2013)

  6/10  

Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between his... (102 mins.)

Director: Michel Poulette

Stars: Reneltta Arluk, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, Pakak Innuksuk

18.

Rich Hill (2014 Documentary)

  6/10  

Rich Hill intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town and the fragile family bonds that sustain them. (91 mins.)

Director: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos

Stars: Alyssa Jewell, Andrew Jewell, Elizabeth Jewell, Willie Jewell

19.

Rosewater (2014)

  5,5/10  

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy. (103 mins.)

Director: Jon Stewart

Stars: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, Haluk Bilginer

20.

Selma (2014)

   6,5/10  

A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. (128 mins.)

Director: Ava DuVernay

Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Lorraine Toussaint

21.

Song One (2014)

  5,5/10  

A young woman strikes up a relationship with her ailing brother's favorite musician. (86 mins.)

Director: Kate Barker-Froyland

Stars: Anne Hathaway, Johnny Flynn, Mary Steenburgen, Ben Rosenfield

22.

Jiao you (2013)

  5,5/10  

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life. (138 mins.)

Director: Tsai Ming Liang

Stars: Shiang-chyi Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi Cheng Lee, Yi Chieh Lee

23.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2013)

   6,5/10  

Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone. (100 mins.)

Director: Ned Benson

Stars: Jessica Chastain, Nina Arianda, Viola Davis, Sasha Eden

24.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2013)

  6,5/10  

Told from the male perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone. (89 mins.)

Director: Ned Benson

Stars: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Viola Davis, Bill Hader

25.

The Gambler (2014)

  6,5/10  

Lit professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance? (111 mins.)

Director: Rupert Wyatt

Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange, John Goodman, Brie Larson

26.

The Overnighters (2014 Documentary)

  6/10  

Broken, desperate men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor risks everything to help them. (102 mins.)

Director: Jesse Moss

Stars: Jay Reinke, Keegan Edwards

27.

The Voices (2014)

  6,5/10  

A dark comedy about a likeable guy pursuing his office crush with the help of his evil talking pets - but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date. (103 mins.)

Director: Marjane Satrapi

Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver

28.

Tokyo Tribe (2014)

  5/10  

In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes... (116 mins.)

Director: Shion Sono

Stars: Tomoko Karina, Akihiro Kitamura, Hiroko Yashiki, Shôta Sometani

29.

Torneranno i prati (2014)

  6,5/10  

A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war during one night at the Italian Front. (80 mins.)

Director: Ermanno Olmi

Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Camillo Grassi, Niccolò Senni, Andrea Di Maria

30.

Trash (2014)

  6,5/10  

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong. (114 mins.)

Director: Stephen Daldry

Stars: Rooney Mara, Martin Sheen, Wagner Moura, Selton Mello

31.

Unbroken (2014)

  6,5/10  

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. (137 mins.)

Director: Angelina Jolie

Stars: Jack O'Connell, Takamasa Ishihara, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund

32.

Miasto 44 (2014)

  7/10  

A story of love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. (130 mins.)

Director: Jan Komasa

Stars: Józef Pawlowski, Zofia Wichlacz, Anna Próchniak, Antoni Królikowski

33.

Relatos salvajes (2014)

  7,5/10  

A story about love deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the undeniable pleasure of losing control. (122 mins.)

Director: Damián Szifron

Stars: Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa, Rita Cortese

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