Picture of the main good guys from the anime movie Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train.
Action/Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train

I was surprised by the redemptive messages I found—along with a bunch of severed demon heads.

Two men in interrogation in Infinite
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Infinite

Infinite feels like it’s found a fitting niche: To be seen by a few, unseen by most and quickly forgotten …

Usnavi and other residents of Washington Heights
Drama, Musical
In the Heights

Some of the innuendos and foul language could deter audiences from an otherwise fun musical.

A mother and child in Awake
Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Awake

It’s difficult to take themes of sacrifice and family seriously from a film that doesn’t seem to value life in …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Nobody

The exceedingly profane language and percussive pummeling batters you as roughly as the hero pounds Russian street thugs.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The Lovebirds

The Lovebirds is like The Amazing Race—but with dead people.

Arne in The Conjuring
Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

This sequel confronts viewers with many gory depictions of murders and exorcisms.

A man in a hat talks furtively to two other people.
Biography/History, Drama, Thriller
The Courier

This dramatic cold-war era spy thriller isn’t always the easiest film to watch.

Emma Stone as Cruella DeVil
Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Cruella

Being bad has rarely looked so good. Therein lies this Disney reboot’s charm … and its problems.

A lost family in Endangered Species
Action/Adventure, Drama
Endangered Species

Endangered Species is about a family running from both the animals and the people who want to kill them.

A woman in a white dress stands in front of a tree with many pictures wedged into it.
Drama, Horror
The Unholy

The Unholy, released on Good Friday of 2021, might be one of the year’s most spiritual movies.

A concerned young man and woman walk through a forest.
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Chaos Walking

This film feels more brutal, and sounds more profane, than you would expect for a movie intended, essentially, for kids.

Two guys ride in a truck.
Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Wrath of Man

Jason Statham’s Wrath of Man might be about family—or, at least, about avenging them—but it’s certainly not for family.

Eric Bana as Aaron Falk in The Dry
Drama
The Dry

This tale of bad deeds and corrupt human failings isn’t always an easy one to sit and swelter through.

Pink in All I Know So Far
Documentary, Drama
All I Know So Far

All I Know So Far is Amazon Prime’s look into Pink’s life, courtesy of the same man who directed The …