Escape Room

“Escape rooms are like living video games,” a game-geek guy named Danny says excitedly while chatting with fellow contestants in …

Comedy
Holmes & Watson

It doesn’t take a Sherlock to deduce that this is a movie to stay far, far away from.

Drama
Vice

This grim satire paints a scathing, vulgar portrait of its titular subject.

Comedy, Drama
The Favourite

The Favourite may indeed be a favorite with secular critics and Academy voters. For me? Not so much.

Welcome to Marwen

If it wasn’t for all the Nazis, Marwen would be a pretty great place. It has everything a knee-high, World …

Drama
The Mule

This film’s troubling elements don’t negate its virtues, but they certainly make it a more difficult date-night companion.

Drama, Romance
If Beale Street Could Talk

If Beale Street Could Talk is a movie that many might talk about, but it’s a love story that’s also …

Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Bird Box

Bird Box won’t be up for any awards, most likely, and it’s R all the way. It didn’t need to …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Once Upon a Deadpool

While Once Upon a Deadpool may have snagged a family-friendlier rating, it squeaked through on technicalities.

Drama
Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots may be well acted. But it’s still a wincingly difficult R-rated film to watch.

Drama
Ben Is Back

Ben Is Back clearly exclaims that addiction singes everything and everyone in an addict’s orbit.

Drama, Horror
The Possession of Hannah Grace

The Possession of Hannah Grace is, frankly, little more than a cold room chock-full of bleak and bloody bumps and …

Drama
Roma

Roma remains a deeply affecting work—stunning in its use of light and shadow, resonant in its unassuming storytelling.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Widows

Despite its impressive pedigree, Widows is ultimately snared in its own web.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story

The nasty web this sequel weaves is still sticky with R-rated problems.