Everyman: Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Everyman in this morality play. Death visits to tell him he’s been called to a reckoning with God, setting him on a journey of attempted redemption. **** DdB
Fantastic Four: Diehards will rubbish this reboot – and they have every right to do so. It does come across as more of a prequel than a reboot. Bottom line, it’s very pedestrian teen fare which is enveloped in gimmicky action scenes and a wafer thin plot. ** DT
Love & Mercy: A perfectly cast Paul Dano plays the younger Brian Wilson with a winning mix of confidence and anxiety in this authentic biopic. **** IND
White Bird in a Blizzard: Lots of talk about feelings but not much action in this drama mystery thriller from director Gregg Araki, who emphasises teenage coming of age over story. ** TS
Trainwreck: Comedy Central star, Amy Schumer, is a comedic tour de force in her auspicious feature film debut in which she plays a single journalist with a voracious sexual appetite. *** WP
The Vatican Tapes: Two priests attempt an exorcism on a possessed woman in this derivative horror film directed by Mark Neveldine that fails to raise any scares. H HR
Ant-man: Funny, light-hearted and entertaining, this origins story meets passing-the-baton tale about the tiniest of Marvel superheroes is the most kid-friendly of any of their fare. *** TS
Big Game: Entertaining stab at recreating 80s B-grade action movies, only this time set in a Finnish forest with a Laplander teenager having to save the day. *** TS
Inside Out: Beautifully animated return to form for Pixar, this story about 11-year-old Riley and the move to a new city teaches us we are emotional creatures in more ways than one. **** TS
Jurassic World 3D: A fun, adrenalin-fuelled ride through a dinosaur theme park where the humans become the food. The loving references to the old films make up for continuity faults. *** TS
Kidnapping Freddy Heineken: Bland documentation of the kidnapping of a beer magnate, which netted the perpetrators the biggest ransom at the time. ** TS
Lila & Eve: While Viola Davis does grieving mother very well, she can’t quite pull off vengeful angel. The film asks some pointed questions about how US police investigate the deaths of black men and leaves them hanging. ** WP
Minions: This prequel to the Despicable Me films takes us back to the evolution of the banana-coloured creatures and their search for a new evil boss for their brotherhood. Not much in this one for adults, but kids will love it. *** LD
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation: Forget what you know about the previous Mission Impossible films. This time around we have a more complex script which sees Ethan Burke (Tom Cruise) on the run from both his agency and an organised crime syndicate. **** MV
Mommy: Challenging and heart-breaking, this French Canadian film is about a woman who tries to home-school her ADHD son after taking him out of the institution he has spent most of his life in. *** TS
Pixels: Adam Sandler’s least offensive film in a while is contrived, boring and rather pointless. ** TS
San Andreas: A wasted opportunity to tell a good story about a natural disaster striking California. With a bad script and poor acting from The Rock, the film relies on computer graphics to save itself. ** MV
That Sugar Film: Informative documentary with lots of gimmicks that inadvertently turns you off the idea of sugar, though it actually only suggests that you need to more careful about what you eat. *** TS
The Gallows: Narratively contrived, this suspenseless, visual mess sends the audience tumbling to the bottom of the found-footage horror genre barrel. ** HR
Thina Sobabili: A coming of age story about a girl whose desperate decisions alter her life and that of her overprotective brother. **** HH
While We’re Young: Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play a middle-aged couple who live vicariously through young Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. **** HH
Winter’s Tale: Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon adapted this three-act ballet from Shakespeare’s romance especially for the Royal Ballet. It premiered in April last year to critical acclaim. (Not reviewed)
Woman in Gold: Helen Mirren is regal as the woman who successfully took on the Austrian government to get back her family’s art work, looted by the Nazis during WWII. *** TS