Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance as a crazed L.A. crime journalist cements his reputation as one of the best actors working today.

Gone Girl
Based on the best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn, the movie is faithful to the book, including the ending that has enough plot holes to drive a semi through.

Kill The Messenger
Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb, Jeremy Renner is superb as a reporter who becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA’s role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California.

Foxcatcher
In another movie based on a true event, Steve Carell plays against type as disturbed, eccentric, multi-millionaire John du Pont, whose relationship with Olympic Gold Medal winning wrestler Mark Schultz leads to tragic consequences.

The Drop
Based on a screenplay from crime novelist Dennis Lehane, the story follows a bartender through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters – “money drops” in the underworld of Brooklyn bars. Featuring James Gandolfini in his last role before his sudden death.

The Equalizer
Any movie starring Denzel Washington is worth seeing. Washington stars a man with a mysterious past who helps a young girl under the control of Russian gangsters.

Non-Stop
Liam Neeson plays a federal air marshal on a flight from New York to London, who gets a text telling him that unless 150 million dollars is transferred to an offshore account, someone will die every 20 minutes.

John Wick
Keanu Reeves plays an ex-hitman who comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him in this action, revenge thriller.

A Walk Among The Tombstones
Based on the character created by Lawrence Block, Liam Neeson is Matt Scudder, a former cop now a private eye, who is asked by a drug dealer to find the men who kidnapped his wife in this noir mystery thriller.

A Most Wanted Man
In one of his last films, the late Philip Seymore Hoffman gives a wonderful performance in this twisted tale of espionage set in Hamburg, Germany.