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The Revenant
Leonardo DiCaprio and the makers of Birdman combine for the visceral, awe-inspiring culmination of their cinematic careers -
Pan
Despite an occasionally turgid narrative, Neverland's potential to thrill remains undeniable in Cinemagic's film festival opener -
Miss Julie
Fermanagh's Castle Coole stands tall in Colin Farrell's simmering Victorian drama, despite the stage-to-film adaptation's big screen shortcomings -
13 Minutes
David Holmes reunites with Oliver Hirschbiegel as the Downfall director returns to familiar ground, albeit with more mixed results -
Timbuktu
As far removed from the mainstream as its setting, Abderrahmane Sissako’s unflinching picture is rich in its portrayal of totalitarian rule in Africa but not without its glimmers of hope -
Murder on the Orient Express
Kenneth Branagh keeps Agatha Christie's detective tale on the right track as both director and lead amidst a cast bristling with star power -
Best (George Best: All By Himself)
Though arguably too linear in scope, the latest chronicle of our greatest footballing talent's tragic journey is nonetheless elegantly and fearlessly told -
The Fits
This adolescent dance drama eschews coming-of-age tropes in favour of a more unorthodox yet fascinating slow burn -
Silence
Liam Neeson is the white whale of Scorsese's monumental 26-year passion project, which caps a career-long study of spirituality on the big screen -
Anthropoid
Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy excel as Czech army agents in a tense and compelling account of one of the Second World War's less heralded moments -
Shooting for Socrates
We may not be Brazil, but with its see-through 'period setting' and wafer-thin plot James Erskine's chronicle of Northern Ireland's 1986 World Cup fails to even suspend disbelief -
Rosewater
Satirist Jon Stewart's directorial debut tells the remarkable story of one journalist's interrogation at the hands of the Iranian government after appearing on The Daily Show -
The Survivalist
Stephen Fingleton’s tense, hypnotic and masterful debut, shot in and around Ballymoney, is a mesmerising dystopian tale -
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Brett Morgen's artful documentary uses home movie footage and Kurt Cobain's extensive journals to reveal the man behind the music -
Robot Overlords
Carrickfergus and Donaghadee provide the backdrop for this bland sci-fi that could yet find an audience as an inadvertent cult comedy -
Cinderella
Director Kenneth Branagh's straight adaptation of the familiar fairy tale is a witty visual spectacle that will charm well beyond the stroke of midnight -
Run All Night
Liam Neeson's latest action flick is an unexpectedly engaging take on the Irish-American mafia narrative in which he cements his position as this generation's Charles Bronson -
Boogaloo and Graham
Michael Lennox's BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated short took on the world and won the hearts and minds of millions – read our review ahead of two screenings at Queen's Film Theatre -
It Follows
Fright fans, remember the name – David Robert Mitchell channels his inner John Carpenter in a gripping feature stalked by an unseen, unknown spectre -
Selma
Northern Ireland's own Bloody Sunday is foreshadowed in Ava DuVernay’s civil rights drama featuring an Oscar-worthy central performance by British actor David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr -
Inherent Vice
Queen's Film Theatre screen Paul Thomas Anderson's trippy noir starring Joaquin Phoenix -
A Most Violent Year
Passed up in every major category at the Academy Awards, JC Chandor's period drama is a powerful, complex picture -
Whiplash
JK Simmons is the drum tutor from Hell in Damien Chazelle's scorching jazz opus -
Taken 3
Liam Neeson runs out of steam in Olivier Megaton's excruciating pay off to a high-earning trilogy -
Testament of Youth
Vera Brittain's war memoir makes for an intense cinematic experience -
The Theory of Everything
Eddie Redmayne becomes scientist Stephen Hawking in revealing biopic -
The Hobbit
Peter Jackson's unrecognisable The Battle of the Five Armies is a triumph of style over substance -
Black Sea
Michael Smiley joins an ensemble crew searching for Nazi gold in Kevin MacDonald's tense thriller -
St. Vincent
Bill Murray is an unlikely babysitter in Theodore Melfi's quirky comedy also starring Chris O'Dowd -
The Drop
James Gandolfini's final film is a gripping ensemble adaptation of the gritty Dennis Lehane novel -
The Imitation Game
Benedict Cumberbatch is extraordinary in Morten Tyldum's flawed biopic of Enigma breaker Alan Turing -
I Am Ali
Claire Lewins uses exclusive audio journals to tell at least part of the legendary boxer's life story -
Third Person
Liam Neeson is an author struggling with a failing narrative in Paul Haggis' similarly unsuccessful ensemble piece -
Serena
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper make it three for three in Susanne Bier's long-in-the-making English language debut -
'71
Jack O'Connell excels in this taut Troubles-era thriller by director Yann Demange and writer Gregory Burke -
Dracula Untold
Northern Ireland provides a dramatic backdrop to Gary Shore's largely superficial blockbuster -
A Most Wanted Man
Philip Seymour Hoffman is every inch the jaded spook in his final film directed by Anton Corbijn -
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Liam Neeson stars in this stylish, lean adaptation of the Lawrence Block novel -
In Order of Disappearance
Hans Petter Moland channels the Coens in this comic revenge thriller shot on the Norwegian tundra -
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Lasse Hallström's adaptation is aesthetically pleasing but stuffed full of unpalatable clichés -
Two Days, One Night
Marion Cotillard gives an unmissable performance in the Dardennes brothers' portrait of life on the edge -
The Congress
Actress Robin Wright sells a version of herself in Ari Folman's dystopian allegory on paternalist Hollywood -
Lilting
Ben Whishaw stars in Hong Khaou's touching English language debut about sexuality and acceptance -
Joe
Nicholas Cage finds critical salvation in David Gordon Green's latest feature set in the rusted, dilapidated South -
Mood Indigo
Michel Gondry's whimsical adaptation of the Boris Vian novel is a cocked-eyebrow of a film that never lets up -
Grand Central
France is smitten with nuclear energy, but not the workers, in this adaptation of Elisabeth Filhol's satirical novel -
The Hundred-Year Old Man...
... Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared lives up to its protracted title -
Cold in July
1980s Texas is the backdrop to Jim Mickle's impressively pulpy adaptation of the Joe R Lansdale novel -
Belle
Amma Asante tells the incredible true story of Miss Dido Belle Lindsay in this grandly realised sophomore feature -
Fruitvale Station
Ryan Coogler's searing directorial debut screens in Belfast as part of Community Relations Week -
Game of Thrones
Having sold out in record time, this touring show is an interesting diversion from the ongoing series -
Venus in Fur
The boundaries between fact and fiction are blurred in Roman Polanski's amusing adaptation of the David Ives play -
Fading Gigolo
John Turturro writes and directs this refined and stylish comedy starring Woody Allen and Sofia Vergara -
The Two Faces of January
Patricia Highsmith's tale of intrigue on the Med is stylishly adapted by Hossein Amini -
Frank
Michael Fassbender plays the eponymous musical maverick in Lenny Abrahamson's touching tragicomedy -
Calvary
John Michael McDonagh trains his sights on the Catholic Church in an avaricious Ireland -
Game of Thrones Season Opener
Matthew Coyle reviews the opening episode of Game of Thrones season 4 at Belfast Film Festival – spoiler alert! -
Starred Up
Crumlin Road Gaol and the Maze provide the backdrop for David Mackenzie's brutally frank prison drama -
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson's latest all-star caper is a fantastically enjoyable yarn -
Non-Stop
Liam Neeson scowls his way through another generic action flick this time set on a plane
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