Blackhat looks the part, but Michael Mann's talent for intelligent thrills appear to have gone off the grid.
For a film whose box-office domination was already guaranteed, Fifty Shades of Grey tries to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, with glimmers of success.
Ex Machina is an exceedingly smart and considerate sci-fi, creating believable tension around Alicia Vikander's all-too-believable AI.
With The Duke of Burgundy, Peter Strickland delivers a dazzling and elegant piece of erotica that credits its audience with intelligence and patience. In every sense, a film for grown-ups.
A powerful, hard-hitting and emotional ride of a film, superbly framed and exquisitely performed, this is worth every cent of the admission price.
Sweet, if relatively unchallenging, Love Is Strange is defined by the charm of two wonderful performances from Alfred Molina and John Lithgow.
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.