Critics Consensus:Carrie Pilby is rough around the edges but very endearing as Bel Powley delivers a compelling performance that's often enough to push past contrived notions.
Synopsis: Carrie (Bel Powley),a gifted woman who graduated from Harvard at 19, struggles to make sense of the world as it...
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Critics Consensus: Smart, suitably nasty, and well-cast, Catfight lands narrative punches just as fast and hard-hitting as the physical violence doled out onscreen.
Synopsis: Two former college friends, who now find themselves in very different walks of life, meet up at a fancy cocktail...
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Critics Consensus:Certain Women further demonstrates writer-director Kelly Reichardt's gift for telling the stories of ordinary people with uncommon empathy and skill.
Synopsis: Three strong-willed women (Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Michelle Williams) strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of...
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Critics Consensus: Rising on the strength of Rebecca Hall's gripping performance, Christine offers an empathetic look at its subject's public career and painful private life.
Synopsis: In Sarasota, Fla., circa 1974, an ambitious, 29-year-old reporter is relentlessly motivated to succeed. She knows she has talent, but...
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Synopsis: In modern-day London, a private investigator becomes entangled in the world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue while investigating a...
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Critics Consensus:Colossal's singular strangeness can be disorienting, but viewers who hang on may find that its genre-defying execution -- and Anne Hathaway's performance -- is well worth the ride.
Synopsis: Gloria is an out-of-work party girl who leaves New York and moves back to her hometown after getting kicked out...
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Critics Consensus:The Commune may not stand with Thomas Vinterberg's greatest work, but the end results remain thought-provoking and overall absorbing.
Synopsis: Personal desires clash with solidarity and tolerance in a Danish commune....
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Critics Consensus:Deepwater Horizon makes effective use of its titular man-made disaster to deliver an uncommonly serious -- yet still suitably gripping -- action thriller.
Synopsis: On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, igniting a massive fireball that...
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Critics Consensus: If Denial doesn't quite do its incredible story complete justice, it comes close enough to offer a satisfying, impactful drama -- and another powerful performance from Rachel Weisz.
Synopsis: When university professor Deborah E. Lipstadt includes World War II historian David Irving in a book about Holocaust deniers, Irving...
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Critics Consensus:Dog Eat Dog's refreshing bundle of quirks and surfeit of visual style aren't quite enough to compensate for an aimlessly forgettable story.
Synopsis: Ex-cons, Troy (Nicolas Cage), Mad Dog (Willem Dafoe) and Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook), are hired by an eccentric mob boss...
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Critics Consensus:Elle finds director Paul Verhoeven operating at peak power -- and benefiting from a typically outstanding performance from Isabelle Huppert in the central role.
Synopsis: The successful CEO (Isabelle Huppert) of a video game company tries to learn the identity of the man who raped...
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Critics Consensus:The Edge of Seventeen's sharp script -- and Hailee Steinfeld's outstanding lead performance -- make this more than just another coming-of-age dramedy.
Synopsis: Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who...
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