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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Drama
Risen

Risen accomplishes something quite remarkable: It tells the familiar, timeless story of Jesus’ death and resurrection from a fresh vantage …

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.

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, Romance
The Choice

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

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

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

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 …