Action/Adventure, Drama, War
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

13 Hours is a well-made, violent, profane, difficult movie. The fact that it depicts real, important events makes it no …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Western
The Revenant

The Revenant, like the land it depicts, is beautiful, brutal and unforgiving.

Drama, Western
The Hateful Eight

But for all its obvious craftsmanship, The Hateful Eight is ruined by its unremitting incivility.

Comedy
Sisters

With every sick, sad reference to sexual anatomy Fey and Poehler make, it just drags out longer and longer.

Drama
The Big Short

The movie’s name really says it all. Sure, it’s a big movie. An important movie, perhaps. But it left me …

Drama, Romance
Carol

When a love story doesn’t know what real love is, how can we trust it with anything else?

Drama
Legend

America cinema has long raised its glass to the gangster. Maybe it’s time for a different vintage.

Comedy
The Night Before

The Night Before could have been called The Nightmare Before had Tim Burton not already made off with the name.

Comedy, Drama
Our Brand is Crisis

By the time the credits roll, Our Brand Is Crisis feels a lot like a badly run political campaign itself: …

Comedy, Horror
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Just when you’re tempted to think you’ve seen it all, some random filmmaker takes that as a dare.

Drama
Burnt

A great message, but one that’s ultimately, um, OK, burnt by the crass content baked into this R-rated recipe.

Drama, Horror
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

This franchise is at least as problematic as its gore-encrusted cousins—perhaps more so—because of the message it so reliably puts …

Comedy, Drama
Rock the Kasbah

Bill Murray has the comedically cantankerous genius-in-his-own mind shtick down pat. He unleashes it again in Rock the Kasbah, to …

Drama, Horror
Crimson Peak

Its wince-worthy words and images aren’t anywhere near as easily brushed aside as, say, a cinematographic palette of falling leaves …

Drama
Room

Room can be crass and crude and incredibly uncomfortable to see. Room is also a thing of beauty—as inspiring a …