The Florida Project
This movie felt like a tragedy to me: a tiny family slowly drowning—incapable of swimming, unwilling to grab lifelines dangling by the pool.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
British writer/director Martin McDonagh paints a discordant picture here of an awful, provincialized middle America.
Thor: Ragnarok
Thor and Hulk have been replaced by two beefy, good ol’ boy jokesters who’d be right at home in a wisecrack-tossing Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
Last Flag Flying
Last Flag Flying is a powerful, emotive film. That said, it’s also an extremely profane one.
Lady Bird
This coming-of-age film drills down into the intimate micro-contradictions of life even as it explodes onscreen with many visually problematic ones.
A Bad Moms Christmas
A Bad Moms Christmas is at times sweet, often silly, but almost constantly salacious.
Suburbicon
The ’50s costumes and scenery look authentic. But then the whole shebang nosedives into something luridly witless, foul and bloody.
Thank You For Your Service
Adam, Solo and Will are more than just statistics. Through story, we see their faces. Feel, in some small way, their pain.
All I See is You
This film is like a cake made entirely of food coloring. It’s bad, plain and simple.
Jigsaw
This reboot offers another excuse for its makers to mangle human flesh in order to reap box office rewards.