Drama, Horror
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Can a movie be incredibly creepy, lightly profane and … kinda boring all at the same time?

Action/Adventure
Hobbs & Shaw

Now, there’s nothing wrong with a little dumb fun, but Hobbs & Shaw comes with lots of un-fun accoutrements.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood ushers us into the last light of Hollywood’s Golden Age—romanticizing it, glorifying it …

Drama
Skin

Skin’s messages of hope and redemption are submerged in vats of problematic ink.

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Secret Obsession

Secret Obsession is not very secret, nor a film anyone’s likely to obsess much over.

Comedy, Drama
The Farewell

A tasty cinematic stew of family depression and grief, hugs and laughter, memories and regrets.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Stuber

More problematic than this buddy cop movie’s comedic failures are its intense violence and frequent profanities.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Point Blank

In the last few years, Netflix has produced some original, buzz-worthy movies. This isn’t one of them.

Action/Adventure, Horror
Crawl

A few simple edits of this horror flick’s harsh profanity and graphic gore could have easily yielded a PG-13 rating.

Drama, Horror
Midsommar

A stay at a drug-filled pagan commune in rural Sweden might not be everyone’s ideal vacation.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Spider-Man: Far From Home

Far From Home is a fine, fun, serviceable superhero flick. But like Peter Parker’s European vacation, it contains some unwelcome …

Yesterday

A blackout swept around the entire globe. Things went missing. But Jack remembered. Just the night before, Jack had decided …

Horror
Annabelle Comes Home

We can only experience so many screeching fiends and shadow-gliding ghoulies before a certain been-there-screamed-at-that ennui sets in.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Anna

This action thriller is filled with graphic content, through and through.

Drama
Wild Rose

Like its predecessors in this formulaic genre, Wild Rose tells a story in which redemption and self-destruction intertwine.