Movie Rating: R

Candyman isn’t sweet. It was never intended to be. But its excesses are enough to choke on.

Nine Days’ problems can be held in tension with its purpose.

As the lead character says, “Life is brutal.” And so is this film.

A gruesome, eye-gouging, hack-me-with-a-machete smorgasbord.

There’s Someone Inside Your House feels like an updated version of past gorefests. But it’s mired in the same predictable …

This tale starts off as a wounded woman’s search for resolution and slowly inches its way into palpable darkness.

This R-rated psychological thriller mostly avoids graphic imagery, but its grim story is no less unnerving and disturbing.

A cryptic and surreal slog.

The Protégé is built on a familiar cinematic paradox: Its good guys kill people for a living.

This is undeniably the most giddily gruesome and irreverently foul superhero pic to date.

Apart from the political ideas this franchise tries to unpack, there’s still all that gruesome violence to deal with.

Kristen Bell stars in Queenpins, a dramedy about a desperate former Olympian running a massive and illegal coupon scam.

To get into this pic, you have to kinda enjoy seeing a woman being pounded, stabbed and bloodily abused.

Vacation Friends offers a grain of goodness in an ocean of problems.

The vast majority of this film wallows in unnecessary violence, a handful of profanity and a storyline that doesn’t quite …