Calvary

Director's desire to follow passions of Christ as close as possible deformed psychological veracity of the characters in the movie. But the actors' play is sublime.

A Most Wanted Man by Anton Corbijn.

A Most Wanted Man by Anton Corbijn is a most wanted antidote to the brilliant war propaganda series by Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt Locker and, especially, Zero Dark Thirty). Being more-or-less standard as cinematic fare it is great as a polemic piece about the modern warfare. Namely, the careerists aided and abetted by mindless squares always win leaving death and destruction in their wake.

         The hero played by untimely gone P. S. Hoffman represents traditional intelligence/police methods: hiring of recruits, imbibing them with sense of the mission and internalizing it with them, etc. etc. When he is about to let off the hook a broken Chechen terrorist, a crooked Swiss banker and a mullah willing to look the other way to terrorist funding going through his charities in order to get to the really big fish in the terror international, a CIA woman with steely eyes [1]  and German prosecutors arrest them all. Recruited son of the cleric is at large and will obviously become a jihadist if be believe the logic of the movie.


[1] She is played by Robin Wright and obviously modeled on the legions of State Department/CIA/NSC banshees: Wendy Sherman, Vicky Nuland, Condi Rice, Samantha Power, Meghan O'Sullivan, etc. etc.

Lucy

Whatever illogical turns this hack job of Luc Besson takes (enhanced brain capacity allows its bearer to violate laws of physics, there is a need to secretly smuggle the substance absolutely unknown to anybody, etc.) the most improbable of all is that lower-middle class girl from Pennsylvania drives the car in Paris for the first time in her life.