Drama, Romance
Life Itself

Life Itself is both beautiful and tragic.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror
Assassination Nation

This film is literally about showing the worst in all of us, and as explicitly as seems possible.

The Predator

Quinn McKenna is a Special Forces guy who’s very effective behind a sniper scope and hair trigger. If you want …

Drama
White Boy Rick

This movie feels messy in every which way.

Comedy, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
A Simple Favor

Despite some compelling cinematic moments, what we end up with here is basically Gone Girl-lite.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Peppermint

This flick is a horribly written 102 minutes of bloodletting and spewed foul language.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Nun

Along with its spirituality, The Nun invites a whole host of supernatural grotesquerie to the party.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Little Stranger

This film blends its eerie atmospherics with brief moments of terrible, frighteningly realistic bloodshed.

Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Kin

Kin is darker and far less enjoyable than its publicity materials might have you think.

Action/Adventure, Comedy
The Happytime Murders

I’ve seen worse movies this year. But I don’t know if I’ve seen anything that made me more sad.

Action/Adventure, Drama
Mile 22

Mile 22 is dumb, frenetic and oh-so bloody—a feature-length romp through a hurricane of fists and feet and death.

Drama
The Wife

The Wife offers a beautiful, complex, chaotic portrayal of a married couple whose relationship is haunted by a dark secret.

Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Slender Man

Slender Man is just a bad movie, and bad in every possible way.

Drama
BlacKkKlansman

For the most part, BlacKkKlansman reflects upon the disturbingly vile mindset of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The Spy Who Dumped Me

Anyone who buys a ticket to this R-rated Bond-ish spoof will need some kind of super-spy tech to get through …