The Thicket is an enjoyable and gritty western set in a snowy landscape where a perfect Peter Dinklage plays a bounty hunter searching for Thicket Bill, a cold-blooded killer played by Juliette Lewis – both give great performances. Dinklage also has a very uncharacteristic group of sidekicks and you care about each of…

The Age of Adaline ten years on, no longer dealing with the travails of age, but this time with relationship violence, only far less nostalgically old-school. With Blake Lively, a piano, and autumnal Boston, it's a bit of a safe bet in a sense, because those basic building blocks rarely end in fiascos, and neither…

A showcase of top-tier animation, blending various techniques and styles, including seamless 3D you barely notice, and a festival of creativity with shots you wouldn’t expect in anime (even live-action ones!). This season—and probably the entire year—doesn’t have a series with better animation or more creativity. Plus…

A pure genre pleasure. Don't look for a story as such, the answers to questions like "who? what? why?" are obscured. The likeable protagonist (the already proven scream queen Samara Weaving) is simply dealing with some post-apocalyptic cult and humanoid monsters. It's one big, 80-minute horror ride, with some really…

Gushing Over Magical Girls has been the talk of the town this season, splitting the anime community into two distinct camps. On one side, you have those who find the series repulsive — its overt explicitness combined with the young age of most of the girls here leaves a sour taste, harvesting more contempt than praise…

The Thicket is an enjoyable and gritty western set in a snowy landscape where a perfect Peter Dinklage plays a bounty hunter searching for Thicket Bill, a cold-blooded killer played by Juliette Lewis – both give great performances. Dinklage also has a very uncharacteristic group of sidekicks and you care about each of…

The Age of Adaline ten years on, no longer dealing with the travails of age, but this time with relationship violence, only far less nostalgically old-school. With Blake Lively, a piano, and autumnal Boston, it's a bit of a safe bet in a sense, because those basic building blocks rarely end in fiascos, and neither…

A mysterious parasitic organism begins to terrorize a small American town, but no one seems to mind too much as high school students are preparing for prom. Ick is kind of Night of the Creeps combined with The Blob and spiced with nostalgia for high school comedies from around 2000, which actually sounds cool. Joseph…

A catastrophic thriller with a premise in which a mysterious deadly epidemic begins to attack the world's richest people hierarchically sounds like a sweeping theme for an episode of The Twilight Zone. Rich Flu has the problem, however, of fleshing out this magical-dystopian idea into a two-hour-long film, in all…

A decent horror film that in the first half is almost a procedural drama about how (not) to prepare for a zombie apocalypse, and in the second half it shows decent genre action with functional suspense scenes, during which you will care about the characters and root for them. We've seen more engaging, inventive, and…