Drama
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Comic book glances are only used to undergird the real focus here: the contorted sexual relationship and societal struggles of …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Blade Runner 2049

Both Blade Runner films lead us into an unseemly, seedy milieu in which humanity’s worst impulses have been augmented and …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Mountain Between Us

This movie has as many content concerns as it has difficult-to-believe plot points.

Drama, Horror
Flatliners

At the end of a what is otherwise a rote PG-13 thriller/horror film, viewers are left with some significant spiritual …

Drama
Battle of the Sexes

Battle of the Sexes is a film about how a gay woman—who happened to be a tennis icon—explored her sexual …

Comedy, Drama
American Made

If you’re already cynical about alleged government deception and corruption, American Made won’t help matters much.

Drama
Stronger

Inspiring as it may be, Stronger never shies away from its painfully traumatic, incredibly profane and alcohol-drenched source material.

Drama, Horror
Friend Request

Friend Request is a dumb, salacious slasher flick: But it’s a tragedy, too.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Kingsman: The Golden Circle

This film has a license to ill.

Drama
Brad’s Status

Brad’s life shows us the danger of letting our insecurities dictate our emotional state.

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Mother!

This film’s take on Christianity might be the most scathing, contempt-filled attack upon it that I’ve ever witnessed onscreen.

Action/Adventure, Drama
American Assassin

American Assassin is a thriller with a sleek, hard and bloody sheen.

Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
IT

A bevy of children star in IT, but they’d be ill-advised to watch it.

Drama
True to the Game

Does True to the Game critique gangsta culture? Or exploit and glorify it?

Drama
9/11

9/11 is a lifeless, pointless exercise in mawkish exploitation.