Drama, Romance
Priceless

Priceless does an admirable job of helping us see and sense the danger of the carnal world of human trafficking …

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Girl on the Train

While the movie leads us through its mystery via a trailing of crumbs, its problematic content comes at us in …

Drama
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation is a powerful, convicting tale. But it’s steeped in horrific displays of violence. And it …

Drama
Denial

Denial is anchored by strong acting and even stronger subject matter: The importance of protecting truth and history. And it …

Comedy
Masterminds

By PG-13 standards, Masterminds doesn’t push the envelope to the edge in terms of sexual content, violence or profanity. But, …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Deepwater Horizon

From shrapnel-torn flesh to protruding bones, thundering eruptions to chunks of metal yanked from hideous wounds, this heroic story is …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Tim Burton’s infatuation with the macabre and the grim is very much present here.

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, Horror
Blair Witch

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

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, 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, …