Action/Adventure, Drama, War
London Has Fallen

Even if the mayhem makes it past your familial sense of protectionism, the obscene language probably won’t.

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Triple 9

Triple 9 is a brutally profane, wincingly violent thriller that pretends to plumb the depths of moral ambiguity.

Drama, Horror
The Witch

The devil truly is in the details in this dreary, demented rumination on wickedness … that has no godly counter …

Comedy
How to Be Single

How to Be Single is a lousy title for this movie. There’s really very little insight of any kind here …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Deadpool

With great power comes great responsibility. That’s what Spider-Man taught us. But Deadpool is as irresponsible as they come.

Drama, Western
Jane Got a Gun

A whole lot of bullets find their final resting places in bad guys’ skulls before that riding-off-into-sunset scene finally comes …

Comedy
Fifty Shades of Black

To truly describe this movie, one must invent new words that mean “ridiculously foul,” only worse.

Comedy
Dirty Grandpa

Dirty Grandpa lives down to its name, then plunges so much deeper into verbal and visual refuse that the word …

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 …

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.