Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Assassin’s Creed

Between its tortured logic and its fatalistic view of religion, Assassin’s Creed does little more than kill off a couple …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Passengers

If Passengers teaches us anything, it’s only as an afterthought. The film is an entertainment vehicle. And like the spaceship …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Rogue One is theoretically a different kind of Star Wars movie. Except that it’s not.

Drama
Collateral Beauty

The whole production feels like a mildly melodramatic stage play that isn’t afraid to take its time and to wax …

Comedy, Drama, Musical
La La Land

Director Damien Chazelle unleashes an old-school, tour de force musical, proving that original, Oscar-worthy moviemaking—without R-rated gratuity—is actually still possible …

Drama, Horror
Incarnate

So is it possible to make an effective exorcism story without, y’know, all that God stuff? No. And Incarnate proves …

Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rules Don’t Apply

It’s sad this film about Howard Hughes lacks any sort of real moral underpinning. It seems the makers took its …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Much of this movie’s magicking revolves around Harry Potter-style witchcraft.

Drama
Shut In

Shut In is a thriller without the thrill, an exercise in jump scenes without the jumps. While it stays within …

Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Arrival

There’s no Independence Day-like bim-bam-boom here. No little green men or giant robots with laser eyes, either. In fact, this …

Comedy, Drama
Almost Christmas

Despite this dramedy’s tender reflections on grief and its strong emphasis on family and forgiveness, the profanity here feels pretty …

Drama
Loving

Loving, with its intimate scale and sparse content concerns, is an accessible, sometimes beautiful story about one couple’s love.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Doctor Strange

Aesthetically, Doctor Strange is a good movie, one of the strongest in the Marvel canon thus far. But is it …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Inferno

Inferno is one of those movies where the villain seems determined to launch doomsday through the most convoluted manner imaginable …

Drama
I’m Not Ashamed

Rachel Joy Scott’s story is a moving example of the difference just one committed Christian can make in the lives …