Action/Adventure, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Pan

This explosion of CGI color is a long way from that beloved story about a boy in green tights who …

Drama
The Martian

Sometimes it takes a dead planet to make us appreciate the value of a single life.

Drama
The Walk

It just goes to show you that you don’t need a lot of R-rated content to make a pretty thrilling …

Drama, Horror
The Green Inferno

Link Eli Roth’s name to the project and you get something else entirely. Namely, a rancid freak show of cinematic …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Hotel Transylvania 2

Anything in this oddball Halloween party pic worth really sinking your teeth into, though? Not really. But at least the …

Comedy, Drama
The Intern

The Intern does some good work. But it never finishes the job.

Drama
Everest

There’s no real “woo-hoo!” moment by film’s end. It’s quite simply a well-acted, documentary-like chronicling.

Drama
Black Mass

Such a detailed and explicit portrait of one man’s violent life arguably glorifies the brutality as much as (or even …

Drama
Captive

Families may feel the film depicts more of Ashley’s and Brian’s sinfulness than they want to see. But this difficult …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

An overlong frenetic freefall of a film that, for all its action, feels surprisingly bereft of drama.

Drama
Sicario

Sicario asks us questions of morality: How far is too far? To fight such monstrous evil, is it necessary to …

cinderella 2015 movie
Drama
Cinderella (2015)

Disney reboots one of its greatest classics, this time as a thoroughly delightful live-action romance that majors not only on …

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Perfect Guy

An utterly predictable, content-crazed PG-13 suspense story that mingles creepy and explicit sexual content with sharp moments of vicious violence.

Comedy, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Visit

Before you know it, the zest of an original perspective explodes against the screen in predictably wincing and foul and …

Drama
90 Minutes in Heaven

The most real thing that happens is here on earth. Not a bad thing, maybe, since it resonates far more …