Laura Poitras' essential, Oscar winning documentary about Edward Snowden's whistle-blow is incredible in what happened but sadly not that great of a film.

Director Kevin MacDonald is one of the only modern directors of his stature to push on with both documentaries and films simultaneously, often to superb effect. Jude Law is excellent against type as a Scottish submarine stealer in this imaginative and criminally ignored heist drama.

Both director, J.C. Chandor, and star, Oscar Isaac, have quietly amassed excellent and rather underappreciated filmography and this near-superb talky about city corruption during a particularly violent year in New York, fits that mold exactly.

Great idea but overrated debut from director Yann Damange, who puts the excellent Jack O'Connell as a soldier in Belfast, during a riot in 1971. Good but not great.

This superb French entry into the perhaps non-existent, rich-man-gets-kidnapped genre from director Lucas Belvaux is a winner. The brilliant Yvan Attal finds his kidnappers are just the start of his problems as EVERYONE turns on him, as a deeply sympathetic character, who can't find solace anywhere, not from even from his own children or the police. A minor classic.