Action/Adventure, Drama
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

It feels strangely cynical, and its pseudo aversion to cursing—while welcome—can’t completely ameliorate the moral hole at its core.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Hercules

No matter how you parse these spiritual musings, though, there are plenty of other reasons not to see Hercules.

Drama, Romance
Paper Towns

This flick generally glorifies all the possible train-wreck stuff of high school floundering—from drunken house parties to sneaky sexcapades to …

Comedy, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Romance
Irrational Man

Mr. Allen’s cinematic efforts aren’t so much irrational as they are incongruous as he deftly uncovers the folly of postmodernism’s …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Self/less

Self/less is exactly the movie you might expect, given its rating, its star and its summertime release: a crude, violent, …

Drama, Horror
The Gallows

Let’s be clear: Just because a horror flick is modestly better, content-wise, than its restrictive rating suggests, that doesn’t make …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Terminator Genisys

No matter how much a director strives to change a franchise’s cinematic past when rebooting it, all that change can …

Comedy, Drama
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Makes for a compelling story – told in a way that we haven’t seen a dozen times already as we’re …

Horror
Insidious: Chapter 3

Would it surprise you to know that Insidious: Chapter 3 works from pretty much the same screeching-demon template that its …

Drama, Musical
Love & Mercy

This painstaking, at times painful portrait of Beach Boys brainchild Brian Wilson dives deep into his brokenness … and shows …

Comedy, Drama, Romance
Aloha

Aloha can mean a lot of things: hello, goodbye, peace, love. In Cameron Crowe’s flick, though, it seems to mean …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Survivor

This action flick underscores self-sacrifice as it wrestles with how far a person should go to protect others. But low …

Action/Adventure, Drama
San Andreas

Dwayne Johnson’s earthquake actioner has a few faults. But we’ll also talk about what survives.

Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
War of the Worlds

Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise retell the classic H.G. Wells tale in a scary, eye-popping aliens-attack adventure.

Drama, Horror
Poltergeist

More than three decades later, folks are still not asking home inspectors to check for nearby cemeteries full of angry, …