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 …

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
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, 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
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.

Comedy, Drama
The Intern

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

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 …

Drama
Captive

Families may feel the film depicts more of Ashley’s and Brian’s sinfulness than they want to see. But this difficult …

Drama
Sicario

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

Drama
Black Mass

Such a detailed and explicit portrait of one man’s violent life arguably glorifies the brutality as much as (or even …

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, Mystery/Suspense
The Perfect Guy

An utterly predictable, content-crazed PG-13 suspense story that mingles creepy and explicit sexual content with sharp moments of vicious violence.