The Ides of March (2011)

An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

A biting, but not very original look at US election politics is mainly watchable for its first-rate cast and good direction.

Maltin**: "Purported inside look at backroom politics covers awfully familiar ground and offers no real surprises; with a cast of this caliber it's easy to take but still doesn't add up to much."

Horns (2013)

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to find strange horns sprouting from his temples.

Starts off more like a fantastical satire and descends into melodramtic horror; pure nonsense for a limited audience.

Into the Forest (2015)

After a massive power outage, two sisters learn to survive on their own in their isolated woodland home.

Somber and intense doomsday drama eschews superficial effects and rather offers a good sense of solitude and abandonment and convincing performances by Page and Wood (although they're both well beyond the age of being the teenagers they are impersonating).

Agora (2009)

In Roman Egypt, a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom falls in love with his mistress, the famous philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.

Despite of all well intentions in production and performance the highly rousing biography of the historic Hypatia is buttered down to a sword and sandal spectacle.

Maltin**: "Potentially interesting tale of science and humanism in conflict with religious intolerance (with obvious to the present day) is too simplistic and melodramatic to make an impression."