Rarely do I find a movie that is so appalling if not outright insulting to all of humanity (and particularly, in this case, womankind) that it gives me a stomach ache.

This is a story that still resonates in the way we deal with war, torture, and detainment camps. It demands depth.

Mistaken for Strangers was a group effort. And also an act of love.

What elevates Hide Your Smiling Faces is Carbone's gentle, lyrical touch where other filmmakers would have turned the same thematic concerns into melodrama.

It's reverential rather than revealing, predictably admiring where it needs to be nuanced and challenging.

The action stuff in The Raid 2, while likely to alienate the squeamish and summon dark thoughts of cinematic nihilism amongst overthinking highbrows, really IS like nothing else out there.

This could well be the single most implausible film playing at your multiplex this weekend and bear in mind, "Mr. Peabody & Sherman" is still in release.

Noah is more of a surrealist nightmare disaster picture fused to a parable of human greed and compassion, all based on the bestselling book of all time, the Bible, mainly the Book of Genesis.

The most significant and bizarre problem with Muppets Most Wanted is a lack of a protagonist.

The Single Moms Club is almost good.

As an examination of memory and experience and how they shape us, The Missing Picture is meaningful beyond its specific subject matter.

As a documented record of Hill's story and her achievements, Anita is a serviceable, at times riveting documentary.

It is never a good situation when a subtitled foreign release is highly dependent on words to get its point across—especially when those words are supposed to make you laugh.

Breezy, sleazy, and sometimes-intense, Rob the Mob depicts a very specific sliver of time in New York history, a time overrun by crack, graffiti, and omnipresent organized crime.

While Canet's direction can't be said to be all over the place, the movie never settles into the groove it so dearly aspires to.

This is a solid thrill ride all around, especially for those who like their Faustian parables with a bit of the bloody red stuff.

A tender and gentle coming-of-age story, as well as a meditation on grief and letting go. It is also that very rare thing, a movie about teenagers where the characters actually seem like real teenagers, as opposed to mini posing adults.

Despite some game acting (and one truly superb moment from David Strathairn), Maladies remains on too low a boil to communicate any sense of stakes for the various characters. It seems to be trying to say something about creativity, and living one's life on one's own terms, but it's a muddle.

The best part of Lars von Trier's fascinating, engaging and often didactic Nymphomaniac is that, despite the sometimes-grim tone and bleak color palate, it's an extremely funny film, playful, even.

Woodley, though, by virtue of the sheer likability of her presence, keeps you hanging on, keeps you rooting for her.

The star turn, and the only major element in Bewakoofiyaan that transcends the by-the-numbers assembly line rom-com, is Rishi Kapoor.

A documentary that manages to be jaw-droppingly provocative and genuinely endearing — sometimes at alternating points, and by the end kind of all at once.

The living legend certainly deserves little blame for this misfire but she can't handle the heavy lifting required by a script and director that feel as unfocused as the film's protagonist for at least an hour.

The Cold Lands is less a story than an experience, and that, as such, anything one might say about it could be considered a spoiler.

Playing namby-pamby is not Sam Rockwell's strong suit.

It's those bigger questions about our nature and our capacity to think beyond self interest that will stick with you.

These are tantalizing glimpses, hinting at the deeper psychological abysses at play here, but they are left unexplored.

When Michell is on his game, as he definitely is with Le Week-End, he unearths small, invaluable and even profound truths about the human condition that are often as inspiring as they are devastating.