The Edge of the Frame

“12 Years a Slave” (Steve McQueen)  =  A

“20 Feet from Stardom” (Morgan Neville)  =  A-

“42” (Brian Helgeland)  =  C+

“Act of Killing, The”  (Joshua Oppenheimer)  =  A-

“Adore” (Anne Fontaine)  =  C-

“Aftershock” (Nicolas Lopez)  =  C-

“All is Lost” (J.C. Chandor)  =  B+

“American Hustle” (David O’Russell)  =  A-

“August: Osage County” (John Wells)  =  B

“Before Midnight” (Richard Linklater)  =  B+

“Blackfish” (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)  =  B+

“Bling Ring, The” (Sofia Coppola)  =  B-

“Blue Jasmine” (Woody Allen)  =  B

“Captain Phillips” (Paul Greengrass)  =  A-

“Conjuring, The ” (James Wan)  =  B

“Dallas Buyer’s Club” (Jean-Marc Valle)  =  B+

“Dirty Wars” (Rick Rowley)  =  B-

“Don Jon” (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)  =  B-

“East, The” (Zal Batmanglij)  =  B

“Enough Said” (Nicole Holofcener)  =  C

“Evil Dead” (Fede Alvarez)  =  C-

“Frances Ha” (Noah Baumbach)  =  B-

“Fruitvale Station” (Ryan Coogler)  =  B+

“Gangster Squad (Ruben Fleischer)  =  C+

“Gravity” (Alfonso Cuaron)  =  A-

“Great Gatsby, The” (Baz Luhrmann)  =  C

“Heat, The” (Paul Feig)  =  C+

“Her” (Spike Jonze)  =  A-

“Iceman, The” (Ariel Vromen)  =  B

“Inside Llewyn Davis” (The Coen Brothers)  =  A

“Kings of Summer, The” (Jordan Vogt-Roberts)  =  B-

“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (Lee Daniels)  =  B-

“Lone Survivor” (Peter Berg)  =  B

“Mama” (Andres Muschietti)  =  C

“Man of Steel” (Zack Snyder)  =  C+

“Mud” (Jeff Nichols)  =  B+

“Nebraska” (Alexander Payne)  =  B

“Oblivion” (Joseph Kosinski)  =  B

“Only God Forgives” (Nicholas Winding Refn)  =  D

“Olympus Has Fallen” (Antoine Fuqua)  =  B-

“Out of the Furnace” (Scott Cooper)  =  B

“Oz: The Great and Powerful” (Sam Raimi)  =  D+

“Pacific Rim” (Guillermo Del Toro)  =  C+

“Philomena” (Stephen Frears)  =  B+

“Place Beyond the Pines, The” (Derek Cianfrance)  =  A-

“Prisoners” (Denis Villeneuve)  =  A-

“Purge, The” (James DeMonaco)  =  C+

“Room 237” (Rodney Ascher)  =  B

“Saving Mr. Banks” (John Lee Hancock)  =  C+

“Short Term 12” (Destin Cretton)  =  A-

“Side Effects” (Steven Soderbergh)  =  B

“Spectacular Now, The” (James Ponsoldt)  =  B-

“Spring Breakers” (Harmony Korine)  =  D+

“Star Trek: Into Darkness” (J.J. Abrams)  =  B-

“Stoker” (Chan-Wook Park)  =  B-

“Stories We Tell” (Sarah Polley)  =  B

“This is the End” (Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen)  =  B

“To the Wonder” (Terrence Malick)  =  C+

“Upstream Color” (Shane Carruth)  =  B-

“We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks” (Alex Gibney)  =  B-

“Wolf of Wall Street, The” (Martin Scorsese)  =  A-

“World War Z” (Marc Forster)  =  B

“You’re Next”  (Adam Wingard)  =  C-