Ranking March 2016's Movies - From Worst To Best

4. Eye In The Sky

RottenTomatoes Score: 92% (7.3/10)

Box Office: Despite plenty of press about the movie being Alan Rickman's final live-action performance, the thriller has made back just $2.3 million to date on a total of 123 screens, though it should get a decent boost when the movie opens in the UK and other international territories.

Verdict: There's absolutely a version of this movie that could've been heavy-handed and simplistic, but director Gavin Hood steadily bleeds out the more disturbing and ambiguous facets of drone warfare while creating a boxed-in, almost unbearably suspenseful central scenario.

The performances across the board, from Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Aaron Paul in particular, help sell the material even when it occasionally flirts with repetition, and ensure that this white-knuckle, tripwire-tense war film engrosses all the way to the finish line.

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