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.
Will Smith tries to win back some leading man cred with Focus, a slick but wholly unsubstantial caper flick.
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.
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.