Comedy
The Night Before

The Night Before could have been called The Nightmare Before had Tim Burton not already made off with the name.

Drama, Romance
Carol

When a love story doesn’t know what real love is, how can we trust it with anything else?

Comedy, Drama
Our Brand is Crisis

By the time the credits roll, Our Brand Is Crisis feels a lot like a badly run political campaign itself: …

Comedy, Horror
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Just when you’re tempted to think you’ve seen it all, some random filmmaker takes that as a dare.

Drama
Burnt

A great message, but one that’s ultimately, um, OK, burnt by the crass content baked into this R-rated recipe.

Comedy, Drama
Rock the Kasbah

Bill Murray has the comedically cantankerous genius-in-his-own mind shtick down pat. He unleashes it again in Rock the Kasbah, to …

Drama, Horror
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

This franchise is at least as problematic as its gore-encrusted cousins—perhaps more so—because of the message it so reliably puts …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Last Witch Hunter

The Last Witch Hunter never quite even makes it to bland.

Drama
Room

Room can be crass and crude and incredibly uncomfortable to see. Room is also a thing of beauty—as inspiring a …

Drama, Horror
Crimson Peak

Its wince-worthy words and images aren’t anywhere near as easily brushed aside as, say, a cinematographic palette of falling leaves …

Drama
Steve Jobs

Movies are a lot like people, too. Great ones are not always good ones. Steve Jobs, rated R as it …

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 …

Drama
Sicario

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

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, 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.