The Last of the Missing Pictures: Selma, A Most Violent Year, Still Alice, and a Sci-Fi Mind-Bender
Welcome to the third and final installment of The Missing Pictures. This is the last supplement to our rankings of every movie from 2014. If you missed the prior issues, you can find Part I here and Part II here.
37. Coherence (directed by James Ward Byrkit, 85% Rotten Tomatoes, 64 Metacritic). Aside from the ominous comet glittering across the night sky, all seems well at the beginning of Coherence, a spooky sci-fi yarn drenched in metaphysical inquiry. Eight privileged adults gather at a suburban house for a dinner party, the kind where someone blathers about the feng shui while passing around the ketamine. It’s the sort of pompous get-together that seems ripe for a cinematic home invasion (think Adam Wingard’s You’re Next), but Coherence indulges in a more introspective form of terror. The power does soon goes out (as does all cell phone service), but instead of intruders bursting through the door, the frights begin when two of the more manly guests venture down the block, peer through the windows of the only lit house on the street, and see…