Well-intended and often poignant film that, unfortunately, too often bogs down in too much talk by its participants.

Frustrating, at times agonizing, the film is nonetheless dappled with a sad beauty. It’s one of the best documentaries of the year.

Fascinating, beautifully photographed portrait of a vanished community.

After the first two “Captain America” entries, the finest comic-book movies of the last five years, this one is disappointing. The story doesn’t make sense.

Sadly, with the Soviet Union gone, the art faces a new enemy: Islamic extremists.

John Maloof’s documentary has an opening both apt and witty: Talking heads, one after the other, struck dumb by the mystery at hand.

Director Ava DuVernay, in showing Ruby's life in waiting, occasionally lets the pace slip into tedium.

Often darkly funny and very well acted, it's a pleasingly subtle, Hitchockian thriller with dark comic overtones.

An unforgettable portrait of a testosterone-driven era.

Easily one of the year's best movies.

Thanks to Scott's charismatic Roger and Eisenberg's sweet nephew, Roger Dodger is one of the most compelling variations on "In the Company of Men."

A compelling portrait of a matchless man, who's still going strong at 72.

Mostly a well-acted, expertly directed comedy with characters and situations of truly universal appeal.

The sweet script, crisp direction and a delightful performance by Leila Hatami, as the sad-eyed wife, should put Deserted Station on your must-see list.

Will Marcela (wonderful Ana Geislerova) opt for brains or brawn? The answer might surprise you.

The Edgertons pile on the plot twists a bit thick, but the director steadily ratchets up the tension until a climactic shootout.

Poison Friends deftly sketches the fine line - is there one? - between "critic" and "loser."

Morales’ spin on the old ransom plot is fresher and more gripping than most big-budget Hollywood products.

You won't find a movie that's more fun this season -- but at 2-1/2 hours, it's probably too much of a good thing.

Bryan Singer’s whip-smart and witty time-travel romp X-Men: Days of Future Past blows a breath of fresh air through the musty Marvel universe.

With Treeless Mountain, Kim establishes herself as a first-class filmmaker.

Nutty as The Lego Batman Movie is in conception, it’s nifty in execution.

At best, mildly entertaining.

House is a spooky fairy tale mixed with martial arts, slow motion, black-and-white flashbacks — even a little upskirt action. A demonic white cat and a people-eating piano add spice. Movies as original as this one don’t come along very often, so grab it while you can.

The Japanese anti-war drama Caterpillar is difficult to watch. But it's directed, acted and photographed well, and it's worth seeing even if it makes you uncomfortable.

As with "Capturing the Friedmans," the documentary is grueling to sit through. Yet the greasy, guilty thrill of being privy to your neighbors' most intimate dramas makes it impossible to stop watching.

The most exhilarating film about indie moviemaking on a shoestring since "Ed Wood," even if its subject -- the director's dad, ultra-macho filmmaking pioneer Melvin Van Peebles -- couldn't be more different than the notoriously inept Wood.

It’s very funny and sweet and even a little weepy, and it has maybe the best scene ever filmed of dirty talk gone wrong. In other words, it’s a Schumer/Apatow production — may there be more of them to come.