Drama, Sports
Race

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

Drama, Sports
Race

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

Comedy
Zoolander No. 2

This might be fashionable these days. But it’ll never be pretty.

Drama, Romance
The Choice

The Choice dutifully checks every expected box—both the poignant elements and the problematic ones.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Feels a lot like all of its extras: mostly dead.

Drama, Horror
The Boy

The story’s super creepy setup makes a notable shift from the dark side, shall we say, to the psychological side …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The 5th Wave

There’s a huge difference between difficult topics and difficult—sometimes gratuitous—content.

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Ride Along 2

Comedian Kevin Hart’s crude and raunchy motormouth shtick is wearing thin.

Comedy
Daddy’s Home

It’s got a good—even earnest—heart when it comes to the never ending demands of fatherhood. But moviegoers are forced to …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Point Break

Director Ericson Core drives a needle full of adrenaline into the original pic’s heart and blows the scope out to …

Drama, Sports
Concussion

This is a message movie, certainly, wearing its cautionary point of view on its toe tag.

Action/Adventure, Drama
In the Heart of the Sea

While the surface story is pretty straightforward, there glides underneath (like the white whale itself) a spiritually tinged parable.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Krampus

The spiritual ideas buried in this unsettling movie can be unearthed more easily in ways that don’t involve a goat …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Victor Frankenstein

A messy experience, any way you want to slice it.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is no more a nice movie than Katniss is a nice person. But …