Fury

You may be forgiven for wondering whether time has stopped during David Ayer’s “Fury,” a fun-free zone and a compendium of stock characters and war-movie clichés.

Turbo

"Turbo" is much better than the last "Cars" picture, but that's not saying enough.

Gangster Squad

The new year starts with a bang – zillions of ‘em – in “Zombieland” director Ruben Fleischer’s postwar-L.A. “Gangster Squad,” an unexpectedly pleasurable entertainment made with copious amounts of humor and a lightness of spirit never hinted at in the trailers.

End of Watch

“Training Day” writer David Ayer takes the director’s chair for his new script “End of Watch,” which is much better and infinitely more fun than the overpraised 2001 Denzel Washington-Ethan Hawke film. “End of Watch” teams Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala, LAPD partners who share more than a squad car. Each is the most important person in the other’s life, outside of family, and each would take a bullet for the other.

The Good Doctor

A character study in search of a character, the badly overheated medical drama “The Good Doctor” stars a toned-down Orlando Bloom as Martin Blake, a young doctor from Britain starting an assignment at a hospital in West L.A. Martin quickly – and inexplicably – becomes obsessed with Diane Nixon, a barely-legal kidney patient (blank-faced Riley Keough), hurdling doctor-patient boundaries like Edwin Moses: he first accepts her family’s invitation to dinner, then switches out her meds so her condition worsens (she seems rather glad of it), then worse, much worse. (He also turns his apartment into a pharm lab to make Oxy to placate the orderly who gets hold of Diane’s diary.)