Friday, September 12, 2014
The best films on release in cinemas now
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.
IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Pål Sverre Hagen, Kristofer Hivju, Bruno Ganz, Peter Andersson
Certificate: 15
Running time: 117 mins
In a nutshell: Stellan Skarsgård shines in this bruisingly black comic thriller from Norway, which channels early Tarantino.
Read The Telegraph's In Order of Disappearance review.
BALLET BOYS
Director: Kenneth Elvebakk
Starring: Lukas Bjørneboe Brændsrød, Syvert Lorenz Garcia, Torgeir Lund
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 75 min
In a nutshell: A patient, affectionate documentary following three Norwegian schoolboys dreaming of becoming ballet dancers.
Read The Telegraph's Ballet Boys 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 min
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 minutes
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.
BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP
Director: Rowan Joffé
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Anne-Marie Duff
Certificate: 15
Running time: 92 minutes
In a nutshell: Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth star in a thriller based on SJ Watson's twisty bestseller about a woman with amnesia.
Read The Telegraph's Before I Go to Sleep review.
SEX TAPE
Director: Jake Kasdan
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Rob Lowe, Jack Black, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper
Certificate: 15
Running time: 94 minutes
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.
THE GUEST
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Sheila Kelley, Leland Orser, Lance Reddick, Joel David Moore
Certificate: 15
Running time: 99 minutes
In a nutshell: A series of mysterious killings occur after a soldier turns up in a neighbourhood claiming to be a good friend of one of the resident's son, who died on tour.
Read The Telegraph's The Guest review.
LIFE OF CRIME
Director: Daniel Schechter
Starring: John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey, Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher
Certificate: 15
Running time: 98 minutes
In a nutshell: Bouffant hair, split screens, ironic soundtrack... This Seventies crime caper ticks all the boxes, but lacks pizzazz.
Read The Telegraph's Life of Crime review.
THEY CAME TOGETHER
Director: David Wain
Starring: Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Ed Helms, Cobie Smulders, Michael Shannon, Lynn Cohen, Melanie Lynskey
Certificate: 15
Running time: 83 minutes
In a nutshell: This mocks the flimsy pleasures of romcom convention with a canned smirk, but all too often the film's relentless meta-quirkiness never builds: it just clatters on, repeating itself.
Read The Telegraph's They Came Together 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.
NIGHT MOVES
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat
Certificate: 15
Running time: 113 mins
In a nutshell: This mordantly witty tale of young environmental activists - among them Jesse Eisenberg at his most brilliantly dislikeable - is as tightly wound as a thumb-screw.
Read The Telegraph's Night Moves review.
THE INBETWEENERS 2
Director: Iain Morris, Damon Beesley
Starring: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison, Daisy Ridley, Emily Berrington, Tamla Kari
Certificate: 15
Running time: 96 mins
In a nutshell: The Inbetweeners boys are back for an Australian gap-year trip in this hysterically funny sequel, directed with dash and a surprising amount of filmic ambition.
Read The Telegraph's Inbetweeners 2 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 min
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.
KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES
Director: Mikkel Nørgard
Starring: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter, Rasmus Botoft, Eric Ericson
Certificate: 15
Running time: 96 min
In a nutshell: A slick adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen's crime thriller follows a maverick Scandi cop and his sidekick in the hunt for a kidnapping psychopath.
Read The Telegraph's Keeper of Lost Causes review.
THE GRAND SEDUCTION
Director: Don McKellar
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch.
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 113 min
In a nutshell: A nice but never especially interesting film about a rural community's attempts to hold onto a slick visiting doctor.
Read The Telegraph's The Grand Seduction review.
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Certificate: 15
Running time: 93 min
In a nutshell: A "found footage" fiction which tells the story of an urban archaeologist coming across nasty things in the Paris catacombs is fatally silly.
Read The Telegraph's As Above, So Below review.
IF I STAY
Director: RJ Cutler
Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Liana Liberato, Lauren Lee Smith, Jamie Blackley, Stacy Keach, Aliyah O'Brien
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 106 min
In a nutshell: A girl in a coma narrates her teenage love story in this mushy adaptation of Gayle Forman's YA bestseller.
Read The Telegraph's If I Stay review.
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Pili Groyne, Simon Caudry, Catherine Salée, Baptiste Sornin, Olivier Gourmet
Certificate: 15
Running time: 95 mins
In a nutshell: A working mother (Marion Cotillard) tries to save her job over the course of a weekend in a social-realist drama that grips like a thriller.
Read The Telegraph's Two Days, One Night review.
SIN CITY 2: A DAME TO KILL FOR
Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Josh Brolin, Mickey Rourke, Eva Green, Jessica Alba, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Powers Boothe, Bruce Willis.
Certificate: 18
Running time: 102 mins
In a nutshell: A return to Sin City, with its cast of private eyes, tough guys and femmes fatales, is determined to show you the best bad time you've had in years.
Read The Telegraph's Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For review.
WHAT IF
Director: Michael Dowse
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Rafe Spall, Adam Driver, Oona Chaplin, Jemima Rooper, Mackenzie Davis
Certificate: 15
Running time: 101 min
In a nutshell: Daniel Radcliffe's winning charm saves this painfully hip Toronto-set romcom from mediocrity.
Read The Telegraph's What If 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.
HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS
Director: Peter Chelsom
Starring: Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgård, Christopher Plummer
Certificate: 15
Running time: 120 mins
In a nutshell: Simon Pegg appears in one of his worst roles to date in this smug and cod-philosophical film about a man trying to find the secret to a life well-lived.
Read The Telegraph's Hector and the Search for Happiness review.
THE ROVER
Director: David Michôd
Starring: Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy, David Field
Certificate: 15
Running time: 103 mins
In a nutshell: This violent outback western, in which a man (Guy Pearce) tries to recover his stolen car in post-apocalyptic Australia, is too workmanlike to truly grip.
Read The Telegraph's The Rover review.
THE CONGRESS
Director: Ari Folman
Starring: Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Paul Giamatti, Jon Hamm, Danny Huston
Certificate: 15
Running time: 123 minutes
In a nutshell: Robin Wright stars as an ageing Hollywood movie star called Robin Wright in this alluring curio, which is part live-action, part animation.
Read The Telegraph's The Congress review.
INTO THE STORM
Director: Stephen Quale
Starring: Richard Armitage, Jeremy Sumpter, Alycia Debnam Carey, Sarah Wayne Callies, Nathan Kress, Matt Walsh, Arlen Escarpeta, Kyle Davis, Brandon Ruiter
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 89 min
In a nutshell: This climate change disaster thriller is a clichéd pain in the backside; numberless shots of tornadoes wreaking destruction end up more frazzling than awe-inspiring.
Read The Telegraph's Into the Storm review.
GOD'S POCKET
Director: John Slattery
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins, John Turturro, Eddie Marsan, Caleb Landry Jones
Certificate: 15
Running time: 89 mins
In a nutshell: One of the last opportunities to see the late Philip Seymour Hoffman at work, in a low-key ensemble drama caked in black humour.
Read The Telegraph's God's Pocket review.
THE EXPENDABLES 3
Director: Patrick Hughes
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Jason Statham, Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 126 mins
In a nutshell: A last hurrah for the sclerotic old men of Eighties action movies has plenty of explosions but is otherwise bloodless.
Read The Telegraph's Expendables 3 review.
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 130 minutes
In a nutshell: The only factor preventing the global takeover of the apes in Matt Reeves's sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the stubborn ability of humankind to resist extinction by any means necessary, which – pointedly here – means taking up arms. This impressively un-stupid film never allows extraordinary special effects to outgun emotion and intelligence.
Read The Telegraph's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D review.
FINDING VIVIAN MAIER
Director: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 84 minutes
In a nutshell: This fascinating film documents one man's quest to uncover the story of a reclusive but brilliant American street photographer.
Read The Telegraph's Finding Vivian Maier review.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Eric Bana, Édgar Ramírez, Olivia Munn, Sean Harris, Joel McHale
Certificate: 15
Running time: 118 min
In a nutshell: A hacky attempt to combine the satanic excesses of The Exorcist with the detective of drama of Seven.
Read The Telegraph's Deliver Us From Evil review.
THE UNBEATABLES
Director: Juan José Campanella
Starring: Rupert Grint, Anthony Head, Darren Boyd, Ralf Little, Eve Ponsonby, Peter Serafinowicz (voices)
Certificate: U
Running time: 97 mins
In a nutshell: In a bad summer for children's films, this story of a team of table footballers who come to life is surely the lowest point.
Read The Telegraph's The Unbeatables review.
LILTING
Director: Hong Khaou
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei-pei, Naomi Christie, Andrew Leung, Peter Bowles
Certificate: 15
Running time: 86 min
In a nutshell: A lovely but somewhat precious story of a gay man and his dead lover's mother features Ben Whishaw at his best.
Read The Telegraph's Lilting review.
ALL THIS MAYHEM
Director: Eddie Martin
Certificate: 15
Running time: 104 min
In a nutshell: There's too much grime and not enough glory in this documentary about Tas and Ben Pappas, two Australian skateboarders who were at the peak of the sport in the late 1990s.
Read The Telegraph's All This Mayhem review.
MOOD INDIGO
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Omar Sy, Gad Elmaleh, Charlotte Le Bon
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 94 mins
In a nutshell: Michel Gondry's magical-realist movie about two lovestruck Parisians (Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou) has glorious moments, but suffers from a fatal lack of heart.
Read The Telegraph's Mood Indigo review.
STEP UP ALL IN
Director: Trish Sie
Starring: Ryan Guzman, Briana Evigan, Adam G Sevani, Izabella Miko
Certificate: PG
Running time: 112 mins
In a nutshell: The fifth film in the Step Up franchise is another whirlwind of set-piece dance numbers, with plenty of fun to be had as two rival crews face off in Las Vegas.
Read The Telegraph's Step Up All In review.
HERCULES
Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Rufus Sewell, Joseph Fiennes, Aksel Hennie, Peter Mullan, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 98 minutes
In a nutshell: Against the odds, Brett Ratner's wholly processed take on the Greek classic, in which Hercules travels ancient Greece scrapping and killing for financial reward, is an oafish pleasure.
Read The Telegraph's Hercules review.
THE PURGE: ANARCHY
Director: James DeMonaco
Starring: Frank Grillo, Kiele Sanchez, Zach Gilford, Michael K. Williams, Amy Paffrath
Certificate: 15
Running time: 103 minutes
In a nutshell: In this poorly edited horror sequel to last year's surprise hit, for another 12-hour period, all crime in the USA has been cathartically permitted.
Read The Telegraph's The Purge: Anarchy review.
THE NUT JOB
Director: Peter Lepeniotis
Starring: Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Maya Rudolph, Stephen Lang, Jeff Dunham
Certificate: U
Running time: 86 mins
In a nutshell: A family animation about a self-serving squirrel may please undemanding children, but it's not funny or original enough to compete with the likes of Pixar.
Read the Telegraph's The Nut Job review.
THE HOUSE OF MAGIC
Directors: Jeremy Degruson, Ben Stassen
Starring: Murray Blue, Doug Stone, George Babbit, Shanelle Gray, Joey Camen (voices)
Certificate: U
Running time: 85 minutes
In a nutshell: A homeless cat called Thunder seeks refuge in a creaking mansion: inside, he finds an elderly conjurer, a rabbit, a mouse and some robotic toys, who induct him into their travelling magic act. Audiences used to Disney and Pixar will rightly expect better.
Read The Telegraph's The House of Magic review.
BOYHOOD
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Marco Perella, Steven Chester Prince, Jamie Howard
Certificate: 15
Running time: 166 minutes
In a nutshell: Richard Linklater's Boyhood, filmed over 12 years to depict a boy growing up in real time, is extraordinary. The film has been talked about as a quirky side-project, but in its completed form it looks like the achievement of a lifetime.
Read The Telegraph's Boyhood review.
BEGIN AGAIN
Director: John Carney
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, James Corden, Hailee Steinfeld, Adam Levine, Catherine Keener
Certificate: 15
Running time: 104 minutes
In a nutshell: Begin Again hews very closely to the template of John Carney's 2007 film, Once: two strangers, played by Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, bond over songwriting, inch towards intimacy, and gain perspective on their emotional problems.
Read The Telegraph's Begin Again review.
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, T.J. Miller
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 165 minutes
In a nutshell: The latest Transformers blockbuster from Michael Bay is far too long but it delivers action and effects in spades and it also – whisper it softly – has a brain.
Read The Telegraph's Transformers: Age of Extinction review.
MRS BROWN'S BOYS D'MOVIE
Director: Ben Kellett
Starring: Brendan O'Carroll, Jennifer Gibney, Sorcha Cusack, Robert Bathurst, Fiona O'Carroll, Rory Cowan, Nick Nevern, Simon Delaney
Certificate: 15
Running time: 94 minutes
In a nutshell: The big-screen outing of Brendan O'Carroll's popular sitcom lacks the charm, warmth and ambition of its source material.
Read The Telegraph's Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie review.
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
Director: Josh Boone
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Willem Dafoe, Nat Wolff
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 140 minutes
In a nutshell: Two teenage cancer patients fall in love after meeting at a support group in this harrowing romance, whis has been adapted from the bestselling novel of the same name. It is tenderly acted, but this isn't the tear-jerker it might have been.
Read The Telegraph's The Fault in our Stars review.
JERSEY BOYS
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza, Christopher Walken
Certificate: 15
Running time: 134 minutes
In a nutshell: Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the hit musical about 1960s rock 'n' roll group, The Four Seasons, is grey and fails to embrace the jangling song-and-dance numbers that made the live version box-office catnip.
Read The Telegraph's Jersey Boys review.
BELLE
Director: Amma Asante
Starring: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Sarah Gadon, Sam Reid, Tom Felton, Miranda Richardson, Penelope Wilton
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 104 minutes
In a nutshell: Based on a true story, Amma Asante's excellent film explores the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, played by the outstanding Gugu Mbatha-Raw. The illegitimate daughter of a British naval officer and his African mistress, Belle was raised in the 18th century on the estate of the First Earl of Mansfield and suffered from widespread racial prejudice, but later became instrumental in the abolition of slavery.
Read The Telegraph's Belle review.
22 JUMP STREET
Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Starring: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Peter Stormare, Wyatt Russell, Amber Stevens, Jillian Bell, Nick Offerman
Certificate: 15
Running time: 109 minutes
In a nutshell: Undercover cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) return for this hilarious sequel to 21 Jump Street – only this time they are infiltrating a college, rather than a school. The sublime chemistry between the pair, combined with the best malapropism ever, make this a joy.
Read The Telegraph's 22 Jump Street 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 minutes
In a nutshell: This Disney reimagining of Sleeping Beauty lacks true enchantment, but Angelina Jolie saves the day.
Read The Telegraph's Maleficent review.
THE OTHER WOMAN
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Nicki Minaj
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 109 minutes
In a nutshell: A promising comedy about three wronged women brought together by mutual hatred of the same man ends up as a shrill version of The First Wives Club.
Read The Telegraph's The Other Woman review.
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