Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
While trying to craft something for your typical 13-year-old’s enjoyment, the new Jumanji writing team dumbed things down.
Just Getting Started
Just Getting Started? I couldn’t wait for it to end.
The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water is an odd, beautiful, jarring, graphically problematic kettle of fish.
The Disaster Artist
Explicit content turns The Disaster Artist into a bad movie about a bad movie.
Wonder Wheel
Woody Allen goes dark with Wonder Wheel, a movie far more bleak and more adult than its PG-13 rating would suggest.
Novitiate
Novitiate, like many of its characters, walks away from this curious form of faith a bit bewildered, a bit disgusted.
Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name celebrates the lie of a culture that’s determined to crown every individual the king or queen of his or her life.
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Roman J. Israel Esq. tells us that not only is virtue its own reward, it is, ultimately, the only one.
Justice League
In a year filled with top-flight superhero movies, DC’s answer to Marvel’s Avengers barely gets off the ground.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
British writer/director Martin McDonagh paints a discordant picture here of an awful, provincialized middle America.