Action/Adventure, Crime, Drama
Force of Nature

As you’d expect in an R-rated Mel Gibson movie, a hurricane of violence accompanies the action here.

Action/Adventure, Drama, War
The Outpost

The Outpost isn’t what you’d call a typical war movie. It doesn’t deliver some things you’d normally expect.

Drama, Horror
Relic

It’s scary and sad and sometimes awful. But Relic also offers a note of hope in that horror.

Drama, War
Greyhound

For those who have Apple TV+, they’ve received a rare cinematic gift: a gripping story with little to gripe about.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Four Kids and It

Four Kids and It is a tale of children who meet a magical, wish-granting creature. But the story goes deeper …

Comedy, Drama, Kids
Feel the Beat

Feel the Beat is a predictable-but-sweet story about the value of self-worth, the need for selflessness and the beauty of …

Drama, Horror
You Should Have Left

For this horror film’s potential viewers, I will simply say You Should … Reconsider.

Action/Adventure, Drama
7500

For anyone who might be triggered by the specter of terrorists easily taking over a plane, 7500 is a chilling …

Drama
The Quarry

This gritty, sometimes difficult drama offers some deep meditations on truth, confession and forgiveness.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer, the author of the Artemis Fowl book series, described the novels as “Die Hard with fairies.”

Action/Adventure, Drama, War
Da 5 Bloods

Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods can be uplifting and hard to stomach at the same time.

Crime, Drama
Infamous

Whatever point this movie wants to make, it’s done in the service of a vapid, crass, violent, profane story.

Action/Adventure, Crime, Drama
The Last Days of American Crime

This movie wallows in excess of every kind, and for no real purpose but to wallow.

Drama, Romance
The Healer

You might actually call this film a feel-good secular hybrid.

Drama, Horror
Shirley

If you poke in its corners and gaze at its accoutrements, you may find that only blackness sits at its …