Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Equalizer 2

The movie’s well-meaning messages are undercut, sometimes literally, at every turn.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Unfriended: Dark Web

Dark Web delivers a deeply creepy cautionary warning—albeit in the trappings of a relatively restrained R-rated horror movie.

Comedy, Drama
Blindspotting

While we can’t turn a blind eye to Blindspotting’s excesses, neither can we turn away from its multilayered message.

Comedy, Drama
Eighth Grade

All the awkwardness of early adolescence is here. Yet, it left me wondering why so much of it had to …

Comedy, Drama
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot is filled with pain and anguish, contrasted with bright moments of hope.

Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The First Purge

I kinda hope this movie itself is purged from theaters, and quickly.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, War
Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Day of the Soldado is propelled by jarring, violently graphic imagery that seems designed solely to shock.

Comedy
TAG

Nearly two hours of f-bomb-riddled, joint-puffing, onscreen nonsense.

Drama, Horror
Hereditary

This is a movie that’s definitely of two minds, both ugly and corrosive.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Hotel Artemis

While the characters have more meat to them than you might expect, their own flesh is all-too-frequently pierced

Drama
American Animals

Whatever strengths the movie has, it doesn’t mitigate the content it wallows in to get there.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance
Adrift

Adrift is one of those films that sails through some pretty major cinematic crosswinds.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Upgrade

Upgrade leads viewers to some very nasty places itself as it bloodily rams home its legitimate cautionary message.

Comedy
Action Point

Action Point isn’t much of a movie, no matter how you slice its vomit-soaked layers.

Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
How to Talk to Girls at Parties

This is not a movie that I’d recommend to anyone. Ever.