The problem with The Edge of Seventeen is that it packs noxious teen-movie content into its humor and insight.
The essence of Ang Lee’s perspective seems to be that war is horrifically complicated. And what it does to those …
Bleed for This is filled with brutal blows, bare bodies and occasional blasphemy. It asks us to look at Vinny …
Wonderfully acted and deeply felt, Manchester by the Sea is also a difficult movie in every way.
Hacksaw Ridge is riveting cinema. But it’s also bloody—as bloody as we’ve seen on screen for a long, long time.
Moonlight, as mesmerizing as the movie is, isn’t just filled with problematic content: It gives us a message counter to …
The Accountant is violent popcorn fare—an exuberant, illogical action-packed thriller that’s only message is, “Sit down and watch Ben Affleck …
While the movie leads us through its mystery via a trailing of crumbs, its problematic content comes at us in …
The Birth of a Nation is a powerful, convicting tale. But it’s steeped in horrific displays of violence. And it …
Bridget Jones’s Baby wasn’t a horrible movie. It’s funny in places. But even though I laughed, it made me sad, …
This sequel still feels like we’ve been-there-and-flinched-at-that before.
Is the sympathy Oliver Stone strives to stir up for his subject something we should embrace or something we should …
This movie’s title is fitting: It’s a disappointment all the way ’round.
Morgan is a provocative, speculative, gruesome sci-fi thriller by first-time director Luke Scott, the son of the film’s famous producer, …
At its core, Hands of Stone is a movie about men pounding each other into submission, even to the point …