Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Gift

This spine-tingling thriller isn’t fully in horror territory, yet it’s deeply disturbing nonetheless.

Action/Adventure, Drama
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

This Mission, should you choose to accept it, can be exciting and fun. But it can be dangerous and perhaps …

Comedy
Vacation

The word letdown isn’t even strong enough to encapsulate the tired, predictable nastiness that ensues in the latest Griswold family …

Drama, Sports
Southpaw

Jab after jab of harsh profanity and bloody boxing imagery mean this movie ultimately takes the same kind of beating …

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 …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Pixels

Most of the truly creative parts of this cute idea could fit in the space of a trailer … which …

Comedy
Trainwreck

Trainwreck, at least in terms of content, is just that—a careening, cataclysmic disaster loaded with stuff that no one should …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Ant-Man

This twelfth entry in the modern series of Marvel Universe movies feels a bit, uh, smaller (less groundbreaking) than the …

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 …

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
Self/less

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

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
Magic Mike XXL

What Magic Mike XXL ultimately offers is shallow escapism—intended to be as sexy and as tawdry as its pretty-boy leads

Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Ted 2

Ted 2 is a two-hour exercise in frustration, because you can see that behind all the foulness, MacFarlane can actually …

Comedy
Dope

We watch this world’s sense of morality implode, leaving us very little to pull from the ashes.