Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
X-Men: Apocalypse

Rote repetition absolutely applies to the bombastic brutality and f-word blast.

Drama, Horror
The Darkness

Derivative. The word defines something that is “imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for that …

Drama
Last Days in the Desert

Last Days in the Desert forces us to consider the humanity of Jesus in ways that can be challenging and, …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War comfortably follows the CGI-enhanced template, but with one interesting change.

Comedy, Drama
Mother’s Day

Sexual subjects and swearing make it much harder to hug this movie than it is to hold tightly to our …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Huntsman: Winter’s War

It’s not that this visually picturesque but overgrown pic is outright rotten. It’s just that it’s unpruned, shall we say.

Comedy, Drama
Elvis & Nixon

Elvis & Nixon wants to grant us an engaging peek behind the curtain. A fictionalized, occasionally obscene peek behind the …

Comedy
Barbershop: The Next Cut

The film somehow makes you feel like you’re simultaneously watching a well-oiled ensemble showcase and binge-watching a series of scatterbrained …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

While this movie’s violence doesn’t go beyond what we see in most Marvel flicks, the atmosphere here is so darkly …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
10 Cloverfield Lane

This is a horror movie, both intimate and sprawling in scope. And as a horror movie, it works. It works …

Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hello, My Name Is Doris

It’s just too bad Hello, My Name Is Doris didn’t say good-bye to more of the genre’s other standard trappings—the …

Drama, War
Eye in the Sky

Through tense, clock-ticking drama and well-acted interactions, Eye in the Sky raises many questions about the new gray areas of …

Drama
The Young Messiah

The dramatic license taken by Rice comes across as wholly different from the likes of recent biblical epics Noah and …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Gods of Egypt

Gods of Egypt has some nifty CGI work, but is otherwise terrible in pretty much every sense of the word.

Drama, Sports
Race

An inspiring story and a great reminder that, while we were not all given Jesse Owens’ speed, we were all …