The Obama Effect (2012)

Upon first watch, Buddy feels like it should have been aired on Adult Swim at four in the morning.

Bollywood's thrilling fusion of what the blind man saw and the boy who cried wolf.

The film reminds us to remember the people who had the courage and dignity that had made the world better, even when the memory was absent.

How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?

The Roses is a wickedly sharp marital warfare comedy that transforms domestic dysfunction into high art. Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch deliver powerhouse performances as a couple whose fairy-tale romance implodes when his architectural career collapses just as her culinary empire takes off. What makes Jay Roach's remake so devastatingly effective is its refusal to pick sides—both spouses are equally sympathetic and monstrous, wielding Tony McNamara's razor-sharp dialogue like weapons forged from shared intimacies. It's a film that dares you to laugh at relationship wreckage while forcing you to confront the uncomfortable truth that the line between passionate love and mutual destruction is terrifyingly thin.

An unlikely friendship changes the hearts of men, and helps a young boy come into his own.