Comedy, Horror
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Just when you’re tempted to think you’ve seen it all, some random filmmaker takes that as a dare.

Drama
Burnt

A great message, but one that’s ultimately, um, OK, burnt by the crass content baked into this R-rated recipe.

Comedy, Drama
Our Brand is Crisis

By the time the credits roll, Our Brand Is Crisis feels a lot like a badly run political campaign itself: …

Comedy, Drama
Rock the Kasbah

Bill Murray has the comedically cantankerous genius-in-his-own mind shtick down pat. He unleashes it again in Rock the Kasbah, to …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Last Witch Hunter

The Last Witch Hunter never quite even makes it to bland.

Drama, Horror
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

This franchise is at least as problematic as its gore-encrusted cousins—perhaps more so—because of the message it so reliably puts …

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Bridge of Spies

His is a story with a moralistic flare that might have stumbled in lesser hands.

Drama
Room

Room can be crass and crude and incredibly uncomfortable to see. Room is also a thing of beauty—as inspiring a …

Drama, Horror
Crimson Peak

Its wince-worthy words and images aren’t anywhere near as easily brushed aside as, say, a cinematographic palette of falling leaves …

Drama
Steve Jobs

Movies are a lot like people, too. Great ones are not always good ones. Steve Jobs, rated R as it …

Drama
The Martian

Sometimes it takes a dead planet to make us appreciate the value of a single life.

Drama, Horror
The Green Inferno

Link Eli Roth’s name to the project and you get something else entirely. Namely, a rancid freak show of cinematic …

Comedy, Drama
The Intern

The Intern does some good work. But it never finishes the job.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

An overlong frenetic freefall of a film that, for all its action, feels surprisingly bereft of drama.

Drama
Sicario

Sicario asks us questions of morality: How far is too far? To fight such monstrous evil, is it necessary to …