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
Criminal

Criminal is a fitting name for this movie. Indeed, we could say, “This movie is Criminal” and leave it pretty …

Comedy, Drama
Demolition

Numbness initially keeps Davis’ grief submerged, but the pain still leaks out, sometimes in the way Davis sees reality.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Hardcore Henry

Throwing yourself headfirst into a garage-sized blender would be pretty gutsy, too. Though not much of a movie night.

Comedy
The Boss

Letter of reference? Ha! What The Boss really deserves is a pink slip.

Comedy
Everybody Wants Some!!

This ode to the early ’80s that takes its title from a Van Halen song is really all about perpetually …

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, Sports
The Bronze

No cheering or medals of any color earned, and Kerri Strug is not amused.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
The Divergent Series: Allegiant

While this movie is marginally cleaner than its predecessors in terms of content, it’s unquestionably worse in terms of story.

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 …

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, 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 …