Drama, Horror
Friend Request

Friend Request is a dumb, salacious slasher flick: But it’s a tragedy, too.

Action/Adventure, Drama
American Assassin

American Assassin is a thriller with a sleek, hard and bloody sheen.

Drama
Brad’s Status

Brad’s life shows us the danger of letting our insecurities dictate our emotional state.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Mother!

This film’s take on Christianity might be the most scathing, contempt-filled attack upon it that I’ve ever witnessed onscreen.

Drama
9/11

9/11 is a lifeless, pointless exercise in mawkish exploitation.

Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
IT

A bevy of children star in IT, but they’d be ill-advised to watch it.

Comedy
Home Again

Hampered by a laissez-faire, morally minimal worldview, Reese Witherspoon’s latest is a film that could have been better … but …

Drama
True to the Game

Does True to the Game critique gangsta culture? Or exploit and glorify it?

Action/Adventure, Drama
Good Time

Good Time is filled with sex, violence, drug use and language, making the movie’s title an obscenely ironic statement.

Action/Adventure, Drama
Birth of the Dragon

Birth of the Dragon unexpectedly illustrates some important spiritual truths in a story that otherwise plays fast and loose with …

Comedy, Drama
Logan Lucky

Now, I don’t have anything against a clever caper movie, and this one’s pretty clever. But we must remember the …

Action/Adventure, Comedy
The Hitman’s Bodyguard

Think Deadpool, only with hired assassins, Russian thugs and nobody in spandex.

Drama
The Glass Castle

The story of Jeanette Walls’ family is an achingly poignant one, exposing deep imperfections amid remarkable beauty.

Drama, Horror
Annabelle: Creation

Even though it acknowledges the need for God to confront spiritual evil, its problems are still legion.

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Wind River

Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation is depicted here as a place where the vulnerable are at the mercy of the …