Action/Adventure, Drama, Western
The Magnificent Seven

This violent remake presents its seven stars as flawed heroes—bad men with good hearts who sacrifice themselves to deal with …

Drama
Snowden

Is the sympathy Oliver Stone strives to stir up for his subject something we should embrace or something we should …

Comedy, Romance
Bridget Jones’s Baby

Bridget Jones’s Baby wasn’t a horrible movie. It’s funny in places. But even though I laughed, it made me sad, …

Drama, Horror
Blair Witch

This sequel still feels like we’ve been-there-and-flinched-at-that before.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Disappointments Room

This movie’s title is fitting: It’s a disappointment all the way ’round.

Drama
Sully

Eastwood’s Sully is a deeply humanistic movie in the best possible way.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
When the Bough Breaks

When the Bough Breaks paints a nasty, bloody, worst-case-scenario picture of what can (theoretically) happen when using a surrogate to …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Morgan

Morgan is a provocative, speculative, gruesome sci-fi thriller by first-time director Luke Scott, the son of the film’s famous producer, …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Mechanic: Resurrection

Mechanic: Resurrection is the Donkey Kong of the cinematic world. There’s not much of a plot, and what there is …

Comedy, Drama
The Hollars

This movie’s unfortunate profanity—especially those misuses of Jesus’ name—may drive it out of bounds for family-focused viewers who would likely …

Drama, Sports
Hands of Stone

At its core, Hands of Stone is a movie about men pounding each other into submission, even to the point …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Don’t Breathe

Everybody is wrong and wronged here, tortured and torturer. Some more than others.

Drama
War Dogs

War Dogs is a profane cautionary tale about what happens when greed and cleverness inevitably undermine integrity in the pursuit …

Comedy, Drama
Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins reminds us all that, sometimes, passion trumps perfection. That what we love doesn’t always make sense.

Animation, Comedy
Sausage Party

We need about as much nuance to review this sick flick as comedian Seth Rogen used restraint in making it. …