JOHN DIES AT THE END (2012)

One bonkers B-movie conceit has never been enough for Don Coscarelli.

A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (2013)

Twenty-five years and four sequels later, McClane seems less man than demigod.

TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D (2013)

In the movie’s severely confused moral universe, a skin-wearing, cannibalistic serial killer is no worse than the dirty politician who denies him due process.

SISTER (2012)

Watching Sister, it’s hard not to think of the Dardenne brothers, from whom the movie borrows its visual style, its pacing, even its moral universe.

GANGSTER SQUAD (2013)

It’s a shallow, star-studded amalgam of every Los Angeles cops-and-crooks drama you’ve ever seen.

A HAUNTED HOUSE (2013)

You know a fright-flick craze is in danger of running its course when Marlon Wayans comes along to broadly, belatedly spoof it.

CONSUMING SPIRITS (2012)

The finished film, a rambling backwoods melodrama that’s equal parts R. Crumb and Flannery O’Connor, took more than a decade to put together.