Drama, Romance
The Choice

The Choice dutifully checks every expected box—both the poignant elements and the problematic ones.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Feels a lot like all of its extras: mostly dead.

Comedy
Hail, Caesar!

There’s always more than “surface” to a Coen collaboration.

Action/Adventure, Drama
The Finest Hours

Disney’s The Finest Hours feels like an old-fashioned adventure yarn that wants to inspire as much as thrill.

Drama, Horror
The Boy

The story’s super creepy setup makes a notable shift from the dark side, shall we say, to the psychological side …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The 5th Wave

There’s a huge difference between difficult topics and difficult—sometimes gratuitous—content.

Comedy, Drama
The Lady in the Van

Caring is a messy business, the movie tells us, sometimes quite literally. Blessed are those who get their hands dirty.

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Ride Along 2

Comedian Kevin Hart’s crude and raunchy motormouth shtick is wearing thin.

Drama, Sports
The Masked Saint

The idea of a professional wrestler becoming a pastor might seem, well, preposterous. But that’s the part that’s actually “inspired …

Horror
The Forest

There are hanging corpses, self-harming delusions and jump scenes aplenty in this pointless pic. Mostly, though, The Forest shambles around …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Point Break

Director Ericson Core drives a needle full of adrenaline into the original pic’s heart and blows the scope out to …

Drama, Sports
Concussion

This is a message movie, certainly, wearing its cautionary point of view on its toe tag.

Comedy
Daddy’s Home

It’s got a good—even earnest—heart when it comes to the never ending demands of fatherhood. But moviegoers are forced to …

Comedy, Drama
Joy

Joy might be reason for, if not joy, then at least a bit of satisfaction.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

It’s not just the Force awakening in Episode VII. It’s the franchise’s charm. And maybe its life lessons, too.