Animation, Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Sherlock Gnomes

This is your standard, plastic, pink flamingo of a movie—colorful and cute and maybe even fun, but kinda tacky, too.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time is no masterpiece. But it still has a wrinkle or two of its own that families …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Annihilation

There’s a lot going on in Annihilation—a tense, freaky, bloody sci-fi rumination on the cyclical nature of life, death and …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Maze Runner: The Death Cure

The Death Cure serves as a dissatisfying ending to an only passably serviceable franchise.

Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Downsizing

For a story that wants to give viewers a moral, universal fairy tale, its gratuitous moments sure restrict its potential …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

The Last Jedi isn’t perfect, morally, spiritually or aesthetically. But I think it’s the best Star Wars film since the …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water is an odd, beautiful, jarring, graphically problematic kettle of fish.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Justice League

In a year filled with top-flight superhero movies, DC’s answer to Marvel’s Avengers barely gets off the ground.

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Thor and Hulk have been replaced by two beefy, good ol’ boy jokesters who’d be right at home in a …

Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Geostorm

This tale would probably make more sense if you could just turn off the dialogue and watch the splashy images …

Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Happy Death Day

This repeat-a-day flick features a college girl with a hangover who lives out her birthday with a sneer before being …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Blade Runner 2049

Both Blade Runner films lead us into an unseemly, seedy milieu in which humanity’s worst impulses have been augmented and …

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

This film has a license to ill.

Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
IT

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

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Western
The Dark Tower

We find a strong dramatic proclamation made that even the most powerful of evil can be faced down by the …