Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Jigsaw

This reboot offers another excuse for its makers to mangle human flesh in order to reap box office rewards.

Drama
All I See is You

This film is like a cake made entirely of food coloring. It’s bad, plain and simple.

Comedy, Drama
Suburbicon

The ’50s costumes and scenery look authentic. But then the whole shebang nosedives into something luridly witless, foul and bloody.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Snowman

Though trailers for this film have tried to amp it up as a horror movie, The Snowman isn’t that. Instead, …

Drama
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Comic book glances are only used to undergird the real focus here: the contorted sexual relationship and societal struggles of …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Blade Runner 2049

Both Blade Runner films lead us into an unseemly, seedy milieu in which humanity’s worst impulses have been augmented and …

Drama
Battle of the Sexes

Battle of the Sexes is a film about how a gay woman—who happened to be a tennis icon—explored her sexual …

Comedy, Drama
American Made

If you’re already cynical about alleged government deception and corruption, American Made won’t help matters much.

Drama
Stronger

Inspiring as it may be, Stronger never shies away from its painfully traumatic, incredibly profane and alcohol-drenched source material.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Kingsman: The Golden Circle

This film has a license to ill.

Drama, Horror
Friend Request

Friend Request is a dumb, salacious slasher flick: But it’s a tragedy, too.

Action/Adventure, Drama
American Assassin

American Assassin is a thriller with a sleek, hard and bloody sheen.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Mother!

This film’s take on Christianity might be the most scathing, contempt-filled attack upon it that I’ve ever witnessed onscreen.

Drama
True to the Game

Does True to the Game critique gangsta culture? Or exploit and glorify it?

Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
IT

A bevy of children star in IT, but they’d be ill-advised to watch it.