Last month saw the release of West-meets-East action movie No Escape; however, if you take any stock in the opinions of critics at all, you probably won't be seeing it. Starring Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan, and - oh yes - comedy star Owen Wilson, the film has been declared Rotten on arrival.
You have to feel a little sorry for Josh Trank. Seemingly destined for great things after breaking out with 2012's Chronicle, it would now appear that director's career has spectacularly stalled thanks to his Fantastic Four reboot proving to be a disaster both creatively and financially.
Bad actors: sometimes you just have to wonder what they're doing in movies in the first place. How they got there, how they continue to be employed and how Hollywood sees fit to carry on funding their lifestyles when there are undoubtedly far better performers out there that haven't even made it yet.
There's an effective love story at Testament of Youth's core, but the misery of this nuance-free adaptation of Vera Brittain's autobiography drowns the romance in tedium.
It may approach the subject of religious fundamentalism in a somewhat passionless manner, but Timbuktu is still a thought-provoking, highly topical tale that surprisingly seeks to entertain as it educates.
Though it can be blunt, the beautifully-rendered coloring book animation of The Boy and the World gels so well with its more adult themes that any flaws are largely forgotten.
Sprawling, thought-provoking, lengthy, intense, frustrating and stunning. No, Winter Sleep isn't quite Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, but it's still Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Palme D'Or-winning latest.
With Exhibition, Joanna Hogg advances her impressive docu-style style with a visually striking - if decidedly chilly - look at a couple reaching stalemate in their stifling London home.
Frustratingly over-egged, Alex Gibney's Finding Fela! attempts to take on too much, then adds more. Thankfully, though, the music and the man make it worth a glance.
A biopic of a worthy subject as well as an affectionate look back upon a lost era, The Last Man on the Moon is a compelling, elegiac documentary about the life of an ordinary astronaut.
