Kill The Messenger is an efficient thriller, with a gripping true story and Jeremy Renner's fine lead performance guiding the film through some scripting wobbles.
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.
An Oscar-winning performance from Julianne Moore defines this story of a linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's Disease.
Sweet, if relatively unchallenging, Love Is Strange is defined by the charm of two wonderful performances from Alfred Molina and John Lithgow.
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.