A Most Violent Year(2014)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 84

In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history.



Mr. Turner(2014)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 89

An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.



Into the Woods(2014)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.



Still Alice(2014)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.



The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies(2014)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Bilbo and Company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness.



Maleficent(2014)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child may be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.



Unbroken(2014)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.



Pride(2014)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 79

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.



St. Vincent(2014)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.



Big Eyes(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.



Song of the Sea(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.



The Book of Life(2014)

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Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart, embarks on an adventure that spans three fantastic worlds where he must face his greatest fears.



Maps to the Stars(2014)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.



The Boxtrolls(2014)

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Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.



Timbuktu(2014)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.



The Judge(2014)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family.



The Hundred-Foot Journey(2014)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.



Cake(2014)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Claire becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group while grappling with her own, very raw personal tragedy.



Beyond the Lights(2014)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 70

The pressures of fame have superstar singer Noni on the edge, until she meets Kaz, a young cop who works to help her find the courage to develop her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.



Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A washed-up actor, who once played a famous superhero, attempts to revive his career by writing and starring in a Broadway play.




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