Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids
Coco

Despite this film’s eye-popping beauty and its heartwarming moments, Pixar’s latest still packages a pagan worldview.

Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy
The Star

This film tells an imaginative and sweet version of Jesus’ birth—from the point of view of animals—while remaining faithful to …

Comedy, Drama
Wonder

Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson earnestly pour their hearts into this poignant, realistic story about a son who is different.

Comedy, Drama
The Florida Project

This movie felt like a tragedy to me: a tiny family slowly drowning—incapable of swimming, unwilling to grab lifelines dangling …

Comedy, Drama
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

British writer/director Martin McDonagh paints a discordant picture here of an awful, provincialized middle America.

Comedy
Daddy’s Home 2

Between put-downs, profanity and off-color gags, this movie still manages to say something about how important dads are.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Thor: Ragnarok

Thor and Hulk have been replaced by two beefy, good ol’ boy jokesters who’d be right at home in a …

Comedy, Drama
Lady Bird

This coming-of-age film drills down into the intimate micro-contradictions of life even as it explodes onscreen with many visually problematic …

Comedy, Drama, War
Last Flag Flying

Last Flag Flying is a powerful, emotive film. That said, it’s also an extremely profane one.

Comedy
A Bad Moms Christmas

A Bad Moms Christmas is at times sweet, often silly, but almost constantly salacious.

Comedy, Drama
Suburbicon

The ’50s costumes and scenery look authentic. But then the whole shebang nosedives into something luridly witless, foul and bloody.

Comedy, Horror
Boo 2! A Madea Halloween

Boo 2 leaves me feeling just like I do after eating too much Halloween candy: a little sick.

Comedy, Drama
The Stray

The Stray is a personal story professionally told, a Christian film that incorporates faith without pulling out a Bible and …

Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids
My Little Pony: The Movie

My Little Pony: The Movie is a film you can walk out of holding your tyke’s hand without feeling depressed, …

Comedy, Drama
American Made

If you’re already cynical about alleged government deception and corruption, American Made won’t help matters much.