THE
IMITATION GAME
Director: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Charles
Dance, Mark Strong, Allen Leech, Tuppence Middleton, Rory Kinnear
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 113 mins
In a nutshell: Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Second World War hero Alan
Turing, the man who helped to break the Enigma code, in this respectful but
bloodless biopic.
Read The Telegraph's The
Imitation Game review.
INTERSTELLAR
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Casey
Affleck, Topher Grace, Michael Caine, Wes Bentley, John Lithgow, Ellen
Burstyn, Matt Damon
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 169 mins
In a nutshell: Christopher Nolan's sweeping space odyssey, in which a
team of astronauts led by Matthew McConaughey search beyond Earth for a new
home for humanity, is his best and most brazenly ambitious to date.
Read The Telegraph's Interstellar
review.
THE
SKELETON TWINS
Director: Craig Johnson
Starring: Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Luke Wilson, Ty Burrell, Boyd
Holbrook, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Joanna Gleason
Certificate: 15
Running time: 93 mins
In a nutshell: Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader shine as estranged siblings
in this blackly funny comedy-drama.
Read The Telegraph's The
Skeleton Twins review.
LEVIATHAN
Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Starring: Alexey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovitchenkov,
Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Alexey Rozin, Sergey Pokhodaev
Certificate: 15
Running time: 140 mins
In a nutshell: This bleak, compassionate and satirically incendiary
work about Russian corruption is the work of a modern master, as dense and
compelling as Dostoyevsky.
Read The Telegraph's Leviathan
review.
THIRD
PERSON
Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde, Adrien Brody, Moran Atias, Mila
Kunis, James Franco
Certificate: 15
Running time: 137 mins
In a nutshell: Liam Neeson stars in this ingeniously structured
ensemble drama, which is let down by cardboard-cutout characterisation.
Read The Telegraph's Third
Person review.
LIFE
ITSELF
Director: Steve James
Starring: Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog,
Ramin Bahrani, Ava DuVernay, Marlene Iglitzen
Certificate: 15
Running time: 121 mins
In a nutshell: A complex, celebratory portrait of the late film critic
Roger Ebert, the combative Pulitzer Prize-winner robbed of speech by thyroid
cancer.
Read The Telegraph's Life
Itself review.
SACRO
GRA
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Certificate: 15
Running time: 93 mins
In a nutshell: Shot around Rome’s equivalent of the M25, this
rough-and-ready documentary offers an unsanctioned tour of lives on the
fraying edges of the Eternal City.
Read The Telegraph's Sacro
GRA review.
MR
TURNER
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson,
Lesley Manville
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 149 mins
In a nutshell: Timothy Spall gives the finest performance of his career
in Mike Leigh's supremely enjoyable biopic of JMW Turner.
Read The Telegraph's Mr
Turner review.
NIGHTCRAWLER
Director: Dan Gilroy
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton
Certificate: 15
Running time: 117 mins
In a nutshell: This electrically overblown satire on tabloid journalism
is a must-see and must-talk-about film, powered by Jake Gyllenhaal's big,
weird performance in the lead.
Read The Telegraph's Nightcrawler
review.
CITIZENFOUR
Director: Laura Poitras
Starring: Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, Jacob Applebaum, Julian
Assange, Ewen MacAskill, William Binney, Jeremy Scahill
Certificate: 15
Running time: 114 mins
In a nutshell: Everybody needs to see this cracklingly immediate
documentary about Edward Snowden, which begins days before he became the US
government's most notorious whistle-blower.
Read The Telegraph's Citizenfour
review.
SAY
WHEN
Director: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell, Ellie
Kemper, Kaitlyn Dever, Gretchen Mol, Mark Webber, Jeff Garlin
Certificate: 15
Running time: 99 mins
In a nutshell: Keira Knightley plays a late-twenties layabout who bonds
with a teenage girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) and her lawyer father (an excellent
Sam Rockwell) in this sub-par comedy of dysfunction.
Read The Telegraph's Say
When review.
NATIVITY
3: DUDE, WHERE'S MY DONKEY?!
Director: Debbie Isitt
Starring: Martin Clunes, Marc Wootton, Catherine Tate, Celia Imrie,
Ralf Little
Certificate: U
Running time: 110 mins
In a nutshell: All-singing, all-dancing and all terrible: there's
barely a scene that couldn't be cut from this sub-par family-oriented
comedy.
Read The Telegraph's Nativity
3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! review.
HORNS
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Heather Graham, Max Minghella
Certificate: 15
Running time: 120 mins
In a nutshell: Daniel Radcliffe's turn as a suspected murderer who
mysteriously grows horns can't save this supernatural thriller from
mediocrity.
Read The Telegraph's Horns
review.
THE
BABADOOK
Director: Jennifer Kent
Starring: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Tiffany
Lyndall-Knight, Benjamin Winspear, Carmel Johnson
Certificate: 15
Running time: 95 minutes
In a nutshell: One of the most original and frightening horror films of
recent years, this Australian chiller features a pop-up book monster who
appears in the life of a widowed mother and her young son.
Read The Telegraph's The
Babadook review.
FURY
Director: David Ayer
Starring: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Peña, Jon
Bernthal, Jason Isaacs
Certificate: 15
Running time: 134 minutes
In a nutshell: At times, David Ayer's gripping tank drama brings us as
close to an understanding of war as cinema can.
Read The Telegraph's Fury
review.
THE
BOOK OF LIFE
Director: Jorge R Gutierrez
Starring: Diego Luna (voice), Zoe Saldana (voice), Channing Tatum
(voice), Ron Perlman (voice), Danny Trejo (voice), Christina Applegate
(voice), Ice Cube (voice)
Certificate: U
Running time: 95 min
In a nutshell: One giant, family-friendly folk-art fiesta, set on
Mexico's Day of the Dead.
Read The Telegraph's The
Book of Life review.
'71
Director: Yann Demange
Starring: Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer,
David Wilmot, Martin McCann, Killian Scott, Charlie Murphy, Sam Reid
Certificate: 15
Running time: 99 minutes
In a nutshell: Yann Demange's Belfast survival thriller is all the more
remarkable given the risks it takes.
Read The Telegraph's '71
review.
THE
MAZE RUNNER
Director: Wes Ball
Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Will Poulter, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas
Brodie-Sangster, Mal Ameen, Ki Hong Lee
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 113 minutes
In a nutshell: Lord of the Flies meets Lost in this fiendishly
effective adaptation of James Dashner's young-adult book.
Read The Telegraph's The
Maze Runner review.
GONE
GIRL
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Ben Affleck, Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens, Neil
Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Missi Pyle, Casey Wilson, Emily Ratajkowski
Certificate: 18
Running time: 145 minutes
In a nutshell: David Fincher turns Gillian Flynn's 2012 bestseller into
a wild neo-noir thriller, a delicious exercise in audience baiting. Rosamund
Pike plays the vanished wife to Ben Affleck's bewildered husband, and she's
never been better.
Read The Telegraph's Gone
Girl review.
SERENA
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, David Dencik, Rhys Ifans,
Toby Jones, Sam Reid, Sean Harris, Ana Ularu
Certificate: 15
Running time: 110 minutes
In a nutshell: The normally reliable double act of Jennifer Lawrence
and Bradley Cooper here join forces for an intensely unlikeable story of a
timber magnate and his Lady Macbeth-esque wife.
Read The Telegraph's Serena
review.
THIS
IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Corey Stoll, Adam
Driver, Timothy Olyphant, Kathryn Hahn, Connie Britton, Dax Shepard
Certificate: 15
Running time: 103 minutes
In a nutshell: A formulaic comedy about a dysfunctional family
gathering to mourn their father.
Read The Telegraph's This
Is Where I Leave You review.
EFFIE
GRAY
Director: Richard Laxton
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Greg Wise, Emma Thompson, Claudia Cardinale,
Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, Derek Jacobi, Tom Sturridge, David Suchet,
James Fox, Russell Tovey
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 108 minutes
In a nutshell: Dakota Fanning looks confused throughout Emma Thompson's
so-so film about John Ruskin and Effie Gray's marriage.
Read The Telegraph's Effie
Gray review.
OUIJA
Director: Stiles White
Starring: Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Daren Kagasoff, Bianca A Santos,
Douglas Smith, Matthew Settle, Shelley Hennig
Certificate: 15
Running time: 89 mins
In a nutshell: A game of Pictionary would be scarier than this
cut-and-paste shocker in which teens mess with a malevolent ouija board.
Read The Telegraph's
Ouija
review.
ALEXANDER
AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY
Director: Miguel Arteta
Starring: Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Ed Oxenbould, Dylan Minnette,
Bella Thorne, Kerris Dorsey
Certificate: PG
Running time: 81 mins
In a nutshell: A boy wishes a terrible day on his whole family in this
so-so family comedy: serial humiliation, mild burns, potential job loss and
a scatological printing gaffe follow.
Read The Telegraph's Alexander
and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day review.
LOVE,
ROSIE
Director: Christian Ditter
Starring: Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Jaime Winstone, Christian Cooke,
Tamsin Egerton, Suki Waterhouse
Certificate: 15
Running time: 102 mins
In a nutshell: A feeble adaptation of Cecelia Ahern's novel about two
childhood sweethearts who spend the best part of 12 years not-quite-becoming
the item they so signally should be.
Read The Telegraph's Love,
Rosie review.
THE
REWRITE
Director: Marc Lawrence
Starring: Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei, J. K. Simmons, Allison Janney,
Bella Heathcote, Chris Elliott
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 107 mins
In a nutshell: In his latest collaboration with the writer-director
Marc Lawrence, Grant plays a waning Hollywood screenwriter whose life is in
desperate need of a satisfying third act.
Read The Telegraph's The
Rewrite review.
THE
CALLING
Director: Jason Stone
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Topher Grace, Gil Bellows, Donald Sutherland,
Christopher Heyerdahl, Ellen Burstyn
Certificate: 15
Running time: 108 mins
In a nutshell: Police work has seldom felt quite so procedural as it
does in this drab Canadian thriller adapted from a novel by Inger Ash Wolfe,
though the case under investigation is far from ordinary.
Read The Telegraph's The
Calling review.
THE
BEST OF ME
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Michelle Monaghan, James Marsden, Liana Liberato, Luke
Bracey, Sebastian Arcelus, Gerald McRaney, Jon Tenney, Caroline Goodall
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 118 mins
In a nutshell: This is a Nicholas "The Notebook" Sparks
production, full of sunsets and storm-drenched clinches. A story of love
over the decades, it throws in everything (abusive redneck dads, heartless
husbands, crossfire manslaughter and child leukaemia) but the kitchen sink,
and doesn't stint on kitsch.
Read The Telegraph's The
Best of Me review.
THE
JUDGE
Director: David Dobkin
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Billy Bob
Thornton, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Dax Shepard, Leighton Meester
Certificate: 15
Running time: 141 mins
In a nutshell: A handsome, harmless star vehicle for Robert Downey Jr,
who plays an unscrupulous big-city lawyer reconnecting with his rural roots,
and defending his irascible father (Robert Duvall) from a hit-and-run
charge.
Read The Telegraph's The
Judge review.
TEENAGE
MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Starring: Megan Fox, William Fichtner, Will Arnett, Whoopi Goldberg,
Johnny Knoxville (voice), Tony Shalhoub, Tohoru Masamune
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 101 mins
In a nutshell: This dreadful CGI reprise of the Ninja Turtles franchise
is equal parts pop-culture references, toilet humour and patience-sapping
contrivance.
Read The Telegraph's Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles review.
DRACULA
UNTOLD
Director: Gary Shore
Starring: Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Charles Dance, Paul
Kaye
Certificate: 15
Running time: 92 mins
In a nutshell: Luke Evans stars as Vlad the Impaler, Transylvanian
nobleman turned bloodsucker, in this lively vampire origin story.
Read The Telegraph's Dracula
Untold review.
ANNABELLE
Director: John R Leonetti
Starring: Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, Alfre Woodard, Eric Ladin,
Brian Howe, Tony Amendola
Certificate: 15
Running time: 99 mins
In a nutshell: It’s 1967, and the only thing missing in the nursery of
an expectant couple is an antique doll to complete the set: heeeere’s
Annabelle! This horror spinoff looks cheap and the scares are second-rate.
Read The Telegraph's Annabelle
review.
LIFE
AFTER BETH
Director: Jeff Baena
Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C Reilly, Molly Shannon,
Cheryl Hines, Paul Reiser
Certificate: 15
Running time: 89 mins
In a nutshell: A glibly funny comedy in which a man (Dane DeHaan) tries
to keep his relationship with his girlfriend going, despite the fact she has
died and become a zombie.
Read The Telegraph's Life
After Beth review.
MAPS
TO THE STARS
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Evan Bird, Robert Pattinson,
John Cusack, Sarah Gadon, Olivia Williams
Certificate: 18
Running time: 112 mins
In a nutshell: Dark laughs and churning horror in David Cronenberg's
multi-stranded story about the toll taken on those who make their lives in
Hollywood, including Robert Pattinson's unruffled limo driver and Julianne
Moore's dysfunctional fading actress.
Read The Telegraph's Maps
to the Stars review.
IDA
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 82 mins
In a nutshell: A miraculous film about a novice nun in Sixties Poland
who discovers she was born Jewish, and sets out to discover the truth about
her family's fate. Shot in glorious black and white, it is simply a
masterwork.
Read The Telegraph's Ida
review.
WHAT
WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY
Directors: Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin
Starring: Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Billy Connolly, Celia Imrie,
Ben Miller, Emilia Jones, Amelia Bullmore, Annette Crosbie
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 95 mins
In a nutshell: This supremely modest film about harrassed parents
(Rosamund Pike and David Tennant) and their wisecracking children has the
feel of Outnumbered: The Movie.
Read The Telegraph's What
We Did On Our Holiday review.
THE
EQUALIZER
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David
Harbour, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo, David Meunier, Haley Bennett
Certificate: 15
Running time: 128 mins
In a nutshell: Denzel Washington stars as a soulful vigilante in this
unnecessary adaptation of the Eighties TV series
Read The Telegraph's The
Equalizer review.
THE
RIOT CLUB
Director: Lone Scherfig
Starring: Sam Claflin, Natalie Dormer, Douglas Booth, Holliday
Grainger, Sam Reid, Tom Hollander, Max Irons, Olly Alexander, Freddie Fox
Certificate: 15
Running time: 106 mins
In a nutshell: A parody of the Oxford Bullingdon Club from the director
of An Education presents a lewdly behaved gathering of young British thesps.
Read The Telegraph's The
Riot Club review.
MAGIC
IN THE MOONLIGHT
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Simon McBurney, Eileen Atkins, Jacki
Weaver, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Shamos, Catherine
McCormack
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 98 mins
In a nutshell: Colin Firth plays a Chinese conjuror called Wei Ling
Soo. But he’s really Stanley Crawford, an English magician who has far too
high an opinion of himself. Magic in the Moonlight isn’t terrible, or cause
to mourn Allen, or roll our eyes and wonder where it all went wrong. It’s
just an off day.
Read The Telegraph's Magic
in the Moonlight review.
20,000
DAYS ON EARTH
Director: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
Certificate: 15
Running time: 88 mins
In a nutshell: A day in the life of Nick Cave is a treat – and not just
for his fans
Read The Telegraph's 20,000
Days on Earth review.
A
WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES
Director: Scott Frank
Starring: Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, Boyd Holbrook, Brian
Bradley
Certificate: 15
Running time: 113 mins
In a nutshell: Neeson is on autopilot as Matt Scudder, an ex-cop and
recovering alcoholic who now works in New York as an unlicensed private
investigator.
Read The Telegraph's A
Walk Among the Tombstones review.
WISH
I WAS HERE
Director: Zach Braff
Starring: Zach Braff, Kate Hudson, Joey King, Pierce Gagnon
Certificate: 15
Running time: 120 mins
In a nutshell: Zach Braff stars as Aidan Bloom, an LA-based actor who
drifts between auditions and school runs while his wife Sarah (Kate Hudson)
toils in a dull job. It may be entertaining, but this is far less profound
than it thinks it is.
Read The Telegraph's Wish
I Was Here review.
DOLPHIN
TALE 2
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Starring: Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Nathan Gamble, Harry Connick Jr., Ashley
Judd, Morgan Freeman, Kris Kristofferson
Certificate: U
Running time: 107 mins
In a nutshell: A bland, squishy sequel which highlights little more
than the daily grind of running an aquarium and animal rescue centre.
Read The Telegraph's Dolphin
Tale 2 review.
A
MOST WANTED MAN
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Robin
Wright, Daniel Brühl, Nina Hoss, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Homayoun Ershadi.
Certificate: 15
Running time: 122 mins
In a nutshell: Philip Seymour Hoffman is mesmerising in this adaptation
of John le Carré’s thriller about post-9/11 global terrorism.
Read The Telegraph's A
Most Wanted Man review.
PRIDE
Director: Matthew Warchus
Starring: Ben Schnetzer, George MacKay, Paddy Considine, Bill Nighy,
Imelda Staunton, Dominic West
Certificate: 15
Running time: 120 mins
In a nutshell: A terrifically warm and affecting telling of the true
story of the alliance between gay people and striking miners in Eighties
Britain.
Read The Telegraph's Pride
review.
THE
BOXTROLLS
Directors: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Isaac Hempstead
Wright, Elle Fanning
Certificate: PG
Running time: 97 mins
In a nutshell: A cheerfully grotesque family animation about creatures
who live under the sewers wearing cardboard boxes.
Read The Telegraph's The
Boxtrolls review.
THE
HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon, Michel
Blanc
Certificate: PG
Running time: 117 mins
In a nutshell: Lasse Hallstrom's culture clash drama, starring Helen
Mirren as a French restaurateur threatened by Indian newcomers, is a foodie
film with bite.
Read The Telegraph's The
Hundred-Foot Journey review.
SEX
TAPE
Director: Jake Kasdan
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Rob Lowe, Jack Black, Rob Corddry,
Ellie Kemper
Certificate: 15
Running time: 94 mins
In a nutshell: Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel are joined by Rob Lowe for
an unraunchy take on the dangers of cloud storage, in which a couple head
out on a frantic journey to try and recover a sex tape.
Read The Telegraph's Sex
Tape review.
LUCY
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, Amr Waked,
Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbaek, Analeigh Tipton
Certificate: 15
Running time: 89 mins
In a nutshell: Luc Besson's exhilarating film, about a young woman
(Scarlett Johansson) who acquires superhuman powers after accidentally
taking an experimental drug, is the blockbuster of the summer.
Read The Telegraph's Lucy
review.
MILLION
DOLLAR ARM
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Jon Hamm, Lake Bell, Aasif Mandvi, Alan Arkin, Bill Paxton,
Madhur Mittal, Suraj Sharma, Allyn Rachel
Certificate: PG
Running time: 124 mins
In a nutshell: Jon Hamm tries to scout a new baseball star from India's
cricketers in this straightforward, feel-good entertainment.
Read The Telegraph's Million
Dollar Arm review.
GUARDIANS
OF THE GALAXY
Director: James Gunn
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Dave
Bautista, Lee Pace, Karen Gillan
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 121 mins
In a nutshell: This family blockbuster gathers together a whole new
crop of Marvel superheroes for an intergalactic chase movie, and offers
snappy, streamlined, Saturday-cartoon fun.
Read The Telegraph's Guardians
of the Galaxy review.
MALEFICENT
Director: Robert Stromberg
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Sam Riley, Juno
Temple, Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville, Brenton Thwaites
Certificate: PG
Running time: 97 mins
In a nutshell: This Disney reimagining of Sleeping Beauty lacks true
enchantment, but Angelina Jolie saves the day.
Read The Telegraph's Maleficent
review.
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