A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American crime thriller film based on a novel by Lawrence Block of the same name, directed and written by Scott Frank. It stars Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, Boyd Holbrook, and Sebastian Roché. The film was released on September 19, 2014.


Box office

The film was released on September 19, 2014. In its initial week of release the film saw tight competition with 20th Century Fox's The Maze Runner. It earned $428,000 from Thursday night from 1,918 theatres and $4.7 million from 2,712 theatres during its opening day.It debuted at number two at the box office on its opening weekend earning $13.1 million behind The Maze Runner ($32.5 million).


Critical response

A Walk Among the Tombstones has received positive reviews from critics. Critics praised the film's cast, especially Neeson's performance, and Frank's direction and screenplay. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 66%, based on 107 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The site's consensus reads, "A Walk Among the Tombstones doesn't entirely transcend its genre clichés, but it does offer Liam Neeson one of his more compelling roles in recent memory, and that's often enough." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 57 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Richard Roeper gave the film a B+ rating, calling the film "a stylish and smart thriller".

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Comedy, Drama, Mystery,

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The Maze Runner (2014)

The Maze Runner is a 2014 American science fiction action thriller film directed by Wes Ball, based on James Dashner's 2009 book of the same name. The film is the first installment in The Maze Runner film series and was produced by Ellen Goldsmith-vein, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, and Lee Stollman with a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers and TS Nowlin. The film stars Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, and Will Poulter.

Follows the story sixteen-year-old Thomas, portrayed by O'Brien, who awakens in a rusty elevator with no memory of who he is, only to learn he's been delivered to the middle of an intricate maze, along with a slew of other boys, who have been trying to find their way out of the ever-changing labyrinth - all while Establishing a functioning society in what They call The Glade. Principal photography began in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on May 13, 2013 and officially concluded on July 12, 2013.

The Maze Runner was released on September 19, 2014 in the United States by 20th Century Fox.

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Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi,

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Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)

Dolphin Tale 2 is a 2014 American family drama film written and directed by Charles Martin Smith and His sequel to 2011 film Dolphin Tale. Harry Connick, Jr., Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Kris Kristofferson, Morgan Freeman, Juliana Harkavy, Austin Stowell and Austin Highsmith all reprise their roles from the first film while Lee Karlinsky, Julia Jordan, Bethany Hamilton and join the cast . The film was released on September 12, 2014 and ŢĖŁŀŞ the story of another dolphin at the hospital named "Hope".

The sequel revolves around more true stories from Clearwater Marine Aquarium, including Both Winter and the baby dolphin, Hope. Winter will still be the central character in the film dolphin. Other animal characters will also return, including Rufus the Pelican. Also included, however, will be the story of the rehabilitated dolphin Mandy, a Clearwater Marine Aquarium dolphin Successfully released back into the wild. Like the first film, Charles Martin Smith His script based on real events that have occurred and the aquarium. The two lead characters returning, Sawyer and Hazel, know what it is like to lose a parent and Hope lost her mother at a young age, so They can really relate to each other. First, Winter dolphin's best friend, dies Panama causing winter to go in solitude. Marne Clearwater Aquarium Winter needs to pair up with another dolphin, Sawyer also gets to go on some college Marin trip for 3 months. He is debating whether or not he shouldnt. They think about pairing up with a dolphin Winter, Mandy, but Mandy gets better fast and They release her. Also, along the story They find a sea turtle and names it, Mavis. Rufus Takes a liking to the turtle and acts as it's bodyguard, when Mavis They release it's better when Rufus goes along with Mavis. They find an orphaned baby dolphin and plans on pairing her up with Winter, the dolphin names Hazel, Hope. At first Hope and Winter do not get along due to Hope being afraid by the way how Winter Winter swims and does not have a tail. They attach when a new modified version of a tale onto Winter, Hope and her bond and Winter does not have to do a transfer. All is well, and Sawyer decides to go on the trip. By the way, Rufus comes back at the end.

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Drama, Family,

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No Good Deed (2014)

No Good Deed is an American crime thriller horror film directed by Sam Miller and written by Aimée Lagos. The film stars Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Kate del Castillo, Mark Smith, Henry Simmons, Wilbur Fitzgerald and Frank Brennan. The film was released on September 12, 2014.

The film's storyline Follows a former District Attorney turned stay-at-home mom (Henson) and her two small children who are terrorized and Kidnapped after she invites a handsome but mysterious stranger (Elba) into their home to wait for help after His car runs off the road

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Thriller,

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The November Man (2014)

The November Man is a 2014 spy thriller film based on the novel There Are No Spies by Bill Granger, which is canonically the seventh installment in "The November Man" series of books, published in 1987. It stars Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, and Olga Kurylenko with the screenplay written by Michael Finch and Karl Gajdusek. The film is directed by Roger Donaldson, known for his most notable works Species, The Recruit and The Bank Job. He previously worked with Brosnan in Dante's Peak. Beau St. Clair once again teams up with Brosnan to co-produce the film.

Code Named "The November Man" veteran CIA agent Peter Devereaux (Pierce Brosnan) retires from the agency in 2008 after his partner and protege David Mason (Luke Bracey) disobeys orders from Devereaux to not fire on an assassin due to the lack of a good foreground and background, accidentally killing a child during a mission to protect a US Ambassador in Montenegro. Devereaux retires to Switzerland and opens up a coffee shop and lives a quiet life until the present day.

Peter's former boss, John Hanley (Bill Smitrovich), seeks out Devereaux in Switzerland and recruits him to extract a deep cover CIA operative from Russia, Natalia Ulanova (Mediha Musilovic). Ms. Ulanova has been posing as the aide of presidential candidate and former Russian Army General Arkady Fedorov (Lazar Ristovski) and knows the name of a witness that can tie Fedorov to war crimes. Natalia will not turn over the name unless she is brought in and is directly asking for Peter's help in getting her out of Russia. Hanley raises the stakes for Peter by also telling him that some of Peter's fellow agents were killed by Arkady Fedorov's personal assassin Alexa (Amila Terzimehic), who is also assigned to murder all of Fedorov's former associates who have knowledge of his past crimes.

Unknowingly to Devereaux, Mason's own team is dispatched to extract Natalia as well, with CIA station chief Perry Weinstein (Will Patton) in charge of the operation. Mason's team is unaware that Hanley (who is in the operations center with them) has dispatched Devereaux to pick up Natalia as well.

Natalia manages to break into Fedorov's personal safe, and takes photographs of Fedorov's photos - all depicting a disheveled young girl and a younger Fedorov in a Russian Army uniform. Natalia manages to escape and contacts Mason's team to ready her for extraction. However, Fedorov notices that his personal key is still in the safe and alerts the FSB, who chase her down in the streets of Moscow until Peter arrives and kills the pursuing FSB agents and rescues Natalia. Natalia is surprised to see Peter and asks about their daughter, Lucy, and Peter says she is well. Natalia gives a name to Peter - Mila Filipova - and Peter promptly calls Hanley with the name.

Mason's team doesn't realize that Devereaux has Natalia and think she may have been captured by the Russians. Perry gives the order to kill Natalia despite Hanley's objections. David kills Natalia with a sniper rifle while she is riding with Devereaux. Natalia hands Peter her cell phone containing the incriminating photos before she dies. Peter notices the CIA drone that had been following his car heading towards the parking garage where David fired from. He goes to the garage and quickly kills all of Mason's CIA team until he runs into Mason at gunpoint. Stunned, Mason and Devereaux (silently) refuse to kill each other.

Hanley goes home to look up files on Mila Filipova, but a CIA strike team breaks into his house and subdues him before he manages to effectively destroy his hard drive. Hanley is later unsuccessfully interrogated by the analyst Celia (Caterina Scorsone) at a CIA black site, and repeatedly tells her that the CIA does not collect information, it "collects" people - IE blackmail. Weinstein debriefs Mason on his encounter with his former mentor, and shows him pictures of Devereaux and Natalia in a relationship, something that infuriates Mason because Devereaux has told him (now hypocritically) repeatedly in the past that spies should not have relationships because the significant other can be used as leverage against them. The orders have come from Langley to kill Devereaux, as not stopping him would mean more field agents being killed out of revenge.

Meanwhile, NY times reporter Edgar Simpson (Patrick Kennedy) tracks down refugee case worker Alice Fournier (Olga Kurylenko) and asks for her assistance in helping him write an expose of Fedorov and his alleged war crimes during the 2nd Chechen War. The assassin Alexa arrives in Belgrade and a hacker contact notifies her that Alice will meet Edgar in a restaurant. Peter also arrives in Belgrade, goes to Hanley's apartment, and knocks out the CIA strike team that secured his apartment. Peter discovers that Alice is Mila's contact and impersonates the CIA strike team to manipulate them into tracking Alice's phone.

Peter manages to rescue Alice from the assassin and Mason's CIA team. Alice says that Mila pretended to be mute around Fedorov, who had sexually abused her during the 2nd Chechen War. Mila is able to understand Russian since her parents are university professors and overheard every single conversation that Fedorov has had - including plans for a false flag conspiracy to bomb a building held by the Russian Army to justify the 2nd Chechen War and the seizure of Chechen oil fields. When Peter confronts one of Fedorov's former associates, Denisov (Dragan Marinkovic), Denisov not only confirms the conspiracy but states the CIA actively helped Fedorov, much to Peter's shock.

Weinstein gives Mason additional motivation to kill Devereaux by showing Mason Devereaux's performance evaluations of Mason - all of them disparaging Mason and recommending he be fired due to his impulsivity. Mason decides to go on a date with his next door neighbor Sarah (Eliza Taylor), and ends up sleeping with her that night. Unbeknownst to him, Devereaux and Alice have broken into the apartment across the street and is observing their departure and arrival. Devereaux notices that Alice speaks fluent Russian as she plays the piano in the occupied apartment - her parents were university professors and taught her the language. He quickly sends off Alice with cash and disposable cell phones before breaking into Mason's apartment. Devereaux holds Sarah hostage and tests Mason's character (since Mason earlier blurted out to Devereaux that he doesn't care about people he killed as a field agent) by cutting her femoral artery before fleeing. Mason chooses to save Sarah and puts pressure on the wound, buying her time until an ambulance arrives.

Fedorov arrives in Belgrade for an energy conference along with Alexa and gives her new orders. Alexa kills Edgar at his home when Alice tries to meet with Edgar, but is tripped up by a dying Edgar, allowing Alice to escape. Peter infiltrates the CIA black site where Hanley is being held and confronts Hanley about the CIA's involvement with aiding Fedorov start a war. Hanley says Weinstein aided Fedorov. Hanley also states that Mila's parent's were university professors that taught her to speak Russian - and thus, the truth comes out - Alice Fournier is actually Mila Filipova. David and Celia come to the same conclusion when they find out that the real Alice Fournier died years ago and Mila took her identity.

Alice/Mila disguises herself has a prostitute and goes to Fedorov's hotel to try and kill him - as he murdered both of her parents before abducting and abusing her. Peter manages to track her down, kills Fedorov's security, and plays Russian Roulette with Fedorov on camera to make him give the name of the CIA agent who conspired with him - and Fedorov states it was John Hanley that aided him. At first, Peter is confused, and shows a photo of the three men - Weinstein, Hanley, and Devereaux to Fedorov - but unfortunately, Alice recognizes Hanley - not Weinstein. Peter and Alice escape the hotel, but not before Peter kills more of Mason's CIA team that has arrived at the hotel and knocking out Mason himself and giving the recorded confession to Mason. Unfortunately, when Mason and Celia try and confront Weinstein with the evidence against Hanley, they find Hanley has replaced Weinstein. Langley has decided that Federov is worth keeping around despite his war crimes and is allowing Hanley to run the show.

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Action, Crime, Thriller,

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As Above, So Below (2014)

As Above, So Below is a 2014 American found footage horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle written by and his brother. The film was produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Universal Pictures, making it the first film in Legendary's deal with Universal . [4] The film was released theatrically on August 28, 2014.

Scarlett, a young scholar alchemy, Continues her dead father's work when she enlists the help of a group of explorers to search the Catacombs Beneath Paris, France. They soon find themselves trapped inside the depths of the Catacombs, being haunted by visions and otherworldly creatures. As They fight to survive, They They realized that there actually be in Hell itself, as the Monstrous visions of their pasts Them as They Pursue relentlessly fight to escape.

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Horror, Thriller,

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