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.

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
The Stray

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

Comedy, Drama
American Made

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

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Kingsman: The Golden Circle

This film has a license to ill.

Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids
The LEGO Ninjago Movie

This latest LEGO tale still feels, uh, apiece with the plastic-block cinematic universe we’ve come to know so well.

Comedy
Home Again

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

Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids
Leap!

Leap! tells a story that feels like so many others we’ve seen before. (Especially from Disney.) But its familiarity doesn’t …

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.

Animation, Comedy, Kids
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature

This sequel’s emphasis on hard work and working as a team could give moms and dads something substantive to discuss …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
The Emoji Movie

There’s not a lot here either to blow heart kisses at or shoot steam out of your nostrils over.

Comedy, Kids, Musical, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Descendants 2

Disney Channel’s second film in this franchise again dives into to surprisingly significant themes involving love and acceptance.