Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Triple 9

Triple 9 is a brutally profane, wincingly violent thriller that pretends to plumb the depths of moral ambiguity.

Drama, Horror
The Witch

The devil truly is in the details in this dreary, demented rumination on wickedness … that has no godly counter …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Deadpool

With great power comes great responsibility. That’s what Spider-Man taught us. But Deadpool is as irresponsible as they come.

Comedy
Zoolander No. 2

This might be fashionable these days. But it’ll never be pretty.

Comedy
How to Be Single

How to Be Single is a lousy title for this movie. There’s really very little insight of any kind here …

Drama, Western
Jane Got a Gun

A whole lot of bullets find their final resting places in bad guys’ skulls before that riding-off-into-sunset scene finally comes …

Comedy
Fifty Shades of Black

To truly describe this movie, one must invent new words that mean “ridiculously foul,” only worse.

Comedy
Dirty Grandpa

Dirty Grandpa lives down to its name, then plunges so much deeper into verbal and visual refuse that the word …

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Ride Along 2

Comedian Kevin Hart’s crude and raunchy motormouth shtick is wearing thin.

Action/Adventure, Drama, War
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

13 Hours is a well-made, violent, profane, difficult movie. The fact that it depicts real, important events makes it no …

Horror
The Forest

There are hanging corpses, self-harming delusions and jump scenes aplenty in this pointless pic. Mostly, though, The Forest shambles around …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Point Break

Director Ericson Core drives a needle full of adrenaline into the original pic’s heart and blows the scope out to …

Drama, Western
The Hateful Eight

But for all its obvious craftsmanship, The Hateful Eight is ruined by its unremitting incivility.

Comedy
Sisters

With every sick, sad reference to sexual anatomy Fey and Poehler make, it just drags out longer and longer.

Drama
The Big Short

The movie’s name really says it all. Sure, it’s a big movie. An important movie, perhaps. But it left me …