Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The 5th Wave

There’s a huge difference between difficult topics and difficult—sometimes gratuitous—content.

Drama, Horror
The Boy

The story’s super creepy setup makes a notable shift from the dark side, shall we say, to the psychological side …

Comedy
Dirty Grandpa

Dirty Grandpa lives down to its name, then plunges so much deeper into verbal and visual refuse that the word …

Action/Adventure, Drama, War
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

13 Hours is a well-made, violent, profane, difficult movie. The fact that it depicts real, important events makes it no …

Comedy, Drama
The Lady in the Van

Caring is a messy business, the movie tells us, sometimes quite literally. Blessed are those who get their hands dirty.

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Ride Along 2

Comedian Kevin Hart’s crude and raunchy motormouth shtick is wearing thin.

Horror
The Forest

There are hanging corpses, self-harming delusions and jump scenes aplenty in this pointless pic. Mostly, though, The Forest shambles around …

Drama, Western
The Hateful Eight

But for all its obvious craftsmanship, The Hateful Eight is ruined by its unremitting incivility.

Comedy, Drama
Joy

Joy might be reason for, if not joy, then at least a bit of satisfaction.

Drama, Sports
Concussion

This is a message movie, certainly, wearing its cautionary point of view on its toe tag.

Comedy
Daddy’s Home

It’s got a good—even earnest—heart when it comes to the never ending demands of fatherhood. But moviegoers are forced to …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Point Break

Director Ericson Core drives a needle full of adrenaline into the original pic’s heart and blows the scope out to …

Comedy
Sisters

With every sick, sad reference to sexual anatomy Fey and Poehler make, it just drags out longer and longer.

Action/Adventure, Drama
In the Heart of the Sea

While the surface story is pretty straightforward, there glides underneath (like the white whale itself) a spiritually tinged parable.

Drama
The Big Short

The movie’s name really says it all. Sure, it’s a big movie. An important movie, perhaps. But it left me …