Going in Style
Even if Going In Style is intended to be a whimsical farce, it still plants a troubling seed: that successfully robbing a bank is possible, survivable and maybe even justifiable.
Gifted
Gifted delivers a warm, heartstring-plucking message about our inbuilt need to love and be loved. It proudly proclaims the self-sacrificial, life-changing joys of family.
Ghost in the Shell
There are some light good-versus-evil, humanity-versus-tech statements, and even a nod or two to family, but all-in-all the film doesn’t feel quite … human enough.
The Zookeeper’s Wife
The Zookeeper’s Wife, based on a true story, is a tender, beautiful, courage-filled movie. It’s also grim, devastating, at times surprisingly graphic for a PG-13 film.
CHiPs
Vulgarity—visual and verbal—runs rampant in this buddy cop reboot that’s ostensibly about law and order.
Saban’s Power Rangers
These five angsty high school heroes sometimes push rebellion to obnoxious levels, while sprinkling in rough-edged language and superfluous sexual innuendo.
The Belko Experiment
Belko’s real experiment may be on moviegoers: Just how much meaningless death can we stomach? Just how much gore can we endure?
Beauty and the Beast
Families that don’t embrace Beauty and the Beast’s pro-gay moments will be forced to grapple with how best to respond to them.
The Last Word
The Last Word could use an addendum: This R-rated movie wants to say something, but it seems confused about what that message should be.
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending is both a quiet cautionary tale and a narrative about an aging man trying to deal with his unfinished emotional business.