Animation, Comedy, Kids
Moana

Disney sets its narrative sights on a new blend of Hawaiian myth and Pacific Ocean adventure.

Drama
Manchester by the Sea

Wonderfully acted and deeply felt, Manchester by the Sea is also a difficult movie in every way.

Drama, War
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

The essence of Ang Lee’s perspective seems to be that war is horrifically complicated. And what it does to those …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Much of this movie’s magicking revolves around Harry Potter-style witchcraft.

Drama, Sports
Bleed for This

Bleed for This is filled with brutal blows, bare bodies and occasional blasphemy. It asks us to look at Vinny …

Comedy
The Edge of Seventeen

The problem with The Edge of Seventeen is that it packs noxious teen-movie content into its humor and insight.

Comedy, Drama
Almost Christmas

Despite this dramedy’s tender reflections on grief and its strong emphasis on family and forgiveness, the profanity here feels pretty …

Drama
Shut In

Shut In is a thriller without the thrill, an exercise in jump scenes without the jumps. While it stays within …

Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Arrival

There’s no Independence Day-like bim-bam-boom here. No little green men or giant robots with laser eyes, either. In fact, this …

Action/Adventure, Drama, War
Hacksaw Ridge

Hacksaw Ridge is riveting cinema. But it’s also bloody—as bloody as we’ve seen on screen for a long, long time.

Animation, Kids, Musical
Trolls

This let’s-all-get-along tale is pretty much exactly the kind of felt-and-glitter silliness you might expect from a movie about something …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Doctor Strange

Aesthetically, Doctor Strange is a good movie, one of the strongest in the Marvel canon thus far. But is it …

Drama
Loving

Loving, with its intimate scale and sparse content concerns, is an accessible, sometimes beautiful story about one couple’s love.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Inferno

Inferno is one of those movies where the villain seems determined to launch doomsday through the most convoluted manner imaginable …

Horror
Ouija: Origin of Evil

As this fright flick’s occult mayhem gets predictably unleashed, it quickly falls back on all that evil-spirit-possession, scream-and-die blech that …