Compliance

Cast
Ann Dowd
Dreama Walker
Pat Healy
Matt Servitto
Bill Camp
Screenwriter 
Craig Zobel
Director
Craig Zobel
Running Time
90 minutes

Becky and Sandra aren't the best of friends. Sandra is a middle-aged manager at a fast-food restaurant; Becky is a teen-aged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day (too many customers and too little bacon), a police officer calls, accusing Becky of stealing money from a customer's purse, which she vehemently denies. Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officer's orders to detain Becky. This choice begins a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience and prudence, legality and reason. (Magnolia Pictures)

It's interesting and thought provoking but I found it difficult to empathise with people who were that foolish for that long which distanced me from the story.

Side Effects

Cast
Rooney Mara
Channing Tatum
Jude Law
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Polly Draper
Marin Ireland
Mamie Gummer
Screenwriter
Scott Z. Burns
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Running Time
106 minutes

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.[Metacritic]

An absorbing, slightly nuts thriller.

Oz The Great and Powerful 3D

Cast
James Franco
Mila Kunis
Rachel Weisz
Michelle Williams
Zach Braff
Screenwriter
David Lindsay-Abaire
Director
Sam Raimi
Running Time
130 minutes

This is a prequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum, told from the point of view of the Wizard. It tells how the Wizard arrived in Oz and how he became the ruler.[Metacritic]


It is perhaps too long and would probably have worked better with some songs but I enjoyed it a lot.

Mama

Cast
Jessica Chastain
Nikolaj coster-Waldau
Megan Charpentier
Isabelle Nélisse
Screenwriters
Neil Cross
Barbara Muschietti
Andrés Muschietti
Director
Andrés Muschietti
Running Time
100 minutes

Annabel and Lucas are faced with the challenge of raising his young nieces that were left alone in the forest for 5 years.... but how alone were they?[Metacritic]

The makers must have thought the CGI was going to be so great that they didn't need much else and from a distance and in shadows it's creepy but up close not really. The kids were great but the new parents just weren't detailed enough to make it more compelling.