As debuts go, Slow West is a stupendous one, the film an elegiac Western triumph both fans of the genre and newcomers alike will hopefully enjoy in equal measure.

I’m not sure how Tomorrowland will age. What I do know is that Bird’s effort, for all its frustrating faults and creatively inspired ambitions, brought that child back out of me as I sat there watching it, and for that reason, and maybe that reason alone, I’m excited to find out what the target audience ends up thinking a decade or so down the line.

I can’t say Pitch Perfect 2 hits all the right notes, and it certainly isn’t the out-of-left-field treat its predecessor was. At the same time, Banks and her talented group of actors and filmmakers have done a nice job, composing a solid, fitfully funny operetta.

Mad Max: Fury Road is an ambitious, eye-popping spectacle of a world in constant chaos and the lengths those attempting to live within it will go to survive.

Chaos at the movies or can the squabblers reach a consensus on Pitch Perfect 2, Far from the Madding Crowd and Mad Max: Fury Road?

Far From the Madding Crowd is a passionately literate piece of cinematic entertainment well worth seeing.

Not great, not terrible, maybe just a bit better than okay, Hot Pursuit isn’t going to win any awards or be remembered in any great detail by those who see it, true, but as mid-afternoon diversions go it’s hardly the worst I’ve ever seen.

The Estonian import Tangerines, a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nominee, is a spellbinding treat, a delectable antiwar polemic of understanding and forgiveness that breaks the heart just as it uplifts the soul.

Avengers: Age of Ultron isn’t anything more than what it initially appears to be, and for most viewers I imagine that’s going to be, not just fine, but positively super.