Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Max Steel

If you’re going to sit through a nearly two-hour commercial for Max Steel action figures, you might as well have …

Comedy, Kids
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

This is the kind of movie that will have conscientious parents face-palming and shaking their heads.

Drama
Denial

Denial is anchored by strong acting and even stronger subject matter: The importance of protecting truth and history. And it …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Tim Burton’s infatuation with the macabre and the grim is very much present here.

Drama
Sully

Eastwood’s Sully is a deeply humanistic movie in the best possible way.

Comedy, Drama
The Hollars

This movie’s unfortunate profanity—especially those misuses of Jesus’ name—may drive it out of bounds for family-focused viewers who would likely …

Comedy, Drama
Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins reminds us all that, sometimes, passion trumps perfection. That what we love doesn’t always make sense.

Action/Adventure, Drama
Jason Bourne

Jason Bourne, the assassin, may be a mysterious figure. But Jason Bourne, the movie, is a known quantity.

Action/Adventure
Nerve

Instead of a cautionary commentary, what we’re left with is a collection of pretty people doing reckless stuff while baring …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Ghostbusters (2016)

Ghostbusting in any decade is far less kid-friendly than many would have you believe.

Action/Adventure, Drama
The Legend of Tarzan

This CGI smorgasbord tells what Warner Bros. hopes is a bankable story, but it’s not a great one.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Independence Day: Resurgence

In Independence Day: Resurgence, love—of country, of home, of others—conquers all, even if aliens destroy much of humanity before we …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror
The Shallows

The Shallows isn’t just a “We’re gonna need a bigger boat” clone. It actually goes quite a bit deeper than …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Warcraft

A film that does live up to its name.

Comedy, Drama
Now You See Me 2

A big-budget sequel that packs a lot more ridiculous and pointless CGI flash up its cinematic sleeves than anything approaching …