Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War comfortably follows the CGI-enhanced template, but with one interesting change.

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Keanu

The kitten is cute. The movie is not.

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 …

Comedy, Drama
Elvis & Nixon

Elvis & Nixon wants to grant us an engaging peek behind the curtain. A fictionalized, occasionally obscene peek behind the …

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
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 …

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, Drama
Demolition

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

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 …

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.

Comedy, Sports
The Bronze

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

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 …