Mira Grosin, Liv Lemoyne and Mira Barkhammar in WE ARE THE BEST! Sofia Sabel/Magnolia Pictures hide caption
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Filth is based on a novel by Irvine Welsh — who also wrote the profane, drug-fueled epic Trainspotting. James McAvoy plays Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson — a bigoted junkie cop — with enough foul-mouthed sleaze to be thoroughly off-putting. Neil Davidson/Magnolia Pictures hide caption
Maleficent rehabilitates the most maligned figure in the fairy tale canon. Frank Connor/Disney hide caption
In Night Moves, Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) and two other partners in crime (played by Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard) plot to load a boat with explosives and blow up a dam in an act of consciousness-raising eco-terrorism. Cinedigm hide caption
Seth MacFarlane, who wrote and directed A Million Ways to Die in the West, stars as Albert, a cowardly sheep farmer who inadvertently falls in love with the wife (Charlize Theron) of a dangerous outlaw (Liam Neeson). Universal Pictures hide caption
Professor Xavier and Magneto scheme to send Wolverine back to the Nixon-era past to avert a devastating war in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Alan Markfield/Twentieth Century Fox hide caption
Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche do their best in the watery Words And Pictures. Doane Gregory/Roadside Attractions hide caption
Robin Williams thinks he's living on borrowed time in The Angriest Man In Brooklyn. Jojo Whilden/Lionsgate hide caption
You're looking pensive, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). And maybe full of ... holes? Alan Markfield/Twentieth Century Fox hide caption
Sam Shepard (Russell), Michael C. Hall (Richard Dane), and Don Johnson (Jim Bob) find themselves unexpectedly working together in Cold In July. IFC Films hide caption