Eric Bana as Aaron Falk in The Dry
Drama
The Dry

This tale of bad deeds and corrupt human failings isn’t always an easy one to sit and swelter through.

And older woman and a young man ride in the back of a limo.
Comedy, Drama
French Exit

Based on the novel of the same name by Patrick deWitt, French Exit is a film that wants to be …

Still of Kelvin Harrison Jr. in Monster
Drama
Monster

This is a gritty story that asks big questions about perception, truth and humanity.

An elderly man sits in a chair and talks to his middle-aged daughter.
Drama
The Father

The Father, of course, is a very sad movie, one that mercilessly marches through the realities of fading by inches.

We see four men of Middle Eastern descent standing in front of a house.
Comedy, Drama
Limbo

Limbo is both silly and serious, delightful and, at times, despairing. That’s not an easy mix to get right.

An adult and child astronauts board a spacecraft.
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller
Voyagers

Though Voyagers is free of really explicit content, it’s still chockful of PG-13 levels of violence and suggestive scenes.

A woman (played by actress Robin Wright) sits in front of a log cabin with a thoughtful expression on her face.
Drama
Land

A thoughtful cinematic journey of recovery for some, but a potentially dark road for others.

Liam Neeson shoulders a rifle and aims in The Marksman.
Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller
The Marksman

The Marksman makes for a rather depressing and cheerless trip to the movies.

An older man and a pregnant young woman stand in a nursery with baby stuff around them.
Drama
Together Together

Together Together offers an interesting, at times crude, springboard into a conversation about surrogacy.

Four astronauts talk on their ship in the movie "Stowaway."
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller
Stowaway

If the screenwriters had throttled back, if they’d kept what you hear as clean as what you see, this Netflix …

Two paramedics walk into a difficult situation.
Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Synchronic

What starts out as a grotesque horror movie morphs into something more akin to sci-fi about halfway through.

A woman points a pistol at someone in a dark room.
Action/Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Vanquish

It’s violent and crass and profane, of course. And it still manages to be very dull and tedious anyway.

A man and a young man ride horses through a town.
Drama, Western
Concrete Cowboy

Concrete Cowboy is a modern redemption tale with an equal number of aces and poison snakes in its boot.

Two men celebrate a victory with a toast.
Biography/History, Drama
Roe v. Wade

On Jan. 22, 1973, nine Supreme Court justices made abortion the law of the land in America. It was the …

We see a lineup of the six superheroes in Justice League.
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Zack Snyder’s Justice League

It’s bloodier. More profane. Its quasi-spirituality can be perplexing. And then there’s this: It’s just a darker movie.