Action/Adventure, Drama, War
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

13 Hours is a well-made, violent, profane, difficult movie. The fact that it depicts real, important events makes it no …

Horror
The Forest

There are hanging corpses, self-harming delusions and jump scenes aplenty in this pointless pic. Mostly, though, The Forest shambles around …

Drama, Western
The Hateful Eight

But for all its obvious craftsmanship, The Hateful Eight is ruined by its unremitting incivility.

Comedy
Sisters

With every sick, sad reference to sexual anatomy Fey and Poehler make, it just drags out longer and longer.

Drama
The Big Short

The movie’s name really says it all. Sure, it’s a big movie. An important movie, perhaps. But it left me …

Drama
Legend

America cinema has long raised its glass to the gangster. Maybe it’s time for a different vintage.

Drama, Romance
Carol

When a love story doesn’t know what real love is, how can we trust it with anything else?

Comedy
The Night Before

The Night Before could have been called The Nightmare Before had Tim Burton not already made off with the name.

Drama
Burnt

A great message, but one that’s ultimately, um, OK, burnt by the crass content baked into this R-rated recipe.

Comedy, Horror
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Just when you’re tempted to think you’ve seen it all, some random filmmaker takes that as a dare.

Drama, Horror
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

This franchise is at least as problematic as its gore-encrusted cousins—perhaps more so—because of the message it so reliably puts …

Drama, Horror
Crimson Peak

Its wince-worthy words and images aren’t anywhere near as easily brushed aside as, say, a cinematographic palette of falling leaves …

Drama, Horror
The Green Inferno

Link Eli Roth’s name to the project and you get something else entirely. Namely, a rancid freak show of cinematic …

Drama
Sicario

Sicario asks us questions of morality: How far is too far? To fight such monstrous evil, is it necessary to …

Drama
Black Mass

Such a detailed and explicit portrait of one man’s violent life arguably glorifies the brutality as much as (or even …