Action/Adventure, Drama
The Transporter Refueled

The Transporter Refueled is more—which means less—than a piece of silly, late-summer theater filler. It’s a loathsome exercise in rationalization.

Comedy
A Walk in the Woods

Nature can even feel like church sometimes, with birds supplying the worship music and lichen padding the pews. This movie, …

Drama, Romance
We Are Your Friends

We Are Your Friends feels like one of the most strangely upbeat seriously foul movies you’ll ever not really want …

Action/Adventure, Drama
No Escape

Immersive, driving, life-affirming, disturbingly ugly and white-knuckle terrifying, all in equal measure.

Action/Adventure, Drama
Hitman: Agent 47

47 ends up feeling like little more than a one-dimensional 90-minute ballet of splattering violence and foul language.

Horror
Sinister 2

From the point at which the Catholic priest argues that we’re impotent to confront evil—that the best we can do …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
American Ultra

Turns out, Mike isn’t the tree: This movie is. It’s a disaster waiting to happen, and it truly is trying …

Drama
Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A. always got right to the point with its music, so I’ll do the same: Simply put, Straight Outta Compton …

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Gift

This spine-tingling thriller isn’t fully in horror territory, yet it’s deeply disturbing nonetheless.

Comedy
Vacation

The word letdown isn’t even strong enough to encapsulate the tired, predictable nastiness that ensues in the latest Griswold family …

Drama, Sports
Southpaw

Jab after jab of harsh profanity and bloody boxing imagery mean this movie ultimately takes the same kind of beating …

Drama, Romance
Paper Towns

This flick generally glorifies all the possible train-wreck stuff of high school floundering—from drunken house parties to sneaky sexcapades to …

Comedy
Trainwreck

Trainwreck, at least in terms of content, is just that—a careening, cataclysmic disaster loaded with stuff that no one should …

Comedy, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Romance
Irrational Man

Mr. Allen’s cinematic efforts aren’t so much irrational as they are incongruous as he deftly uncovers the folly of postmodernism’s …

Drama, Horror
The Gallows

Let’s be clear: Just because a horror flick is modestly better, content-wise, than its restrictive rating suggests, that doesn’t make …