Fist Fight
Fist Fight tries to tell us that what we say and do, and how we live our lives, matters. But it undercuts its own message by not caring much about its own story or content or, frankly, its audience.
John Wick: Chapter 2
Just like the first Wick pic, this is a bone-breaking ballet of brutality. It’s a movie that’s more concerned with how it artfully splashes brains, than how it uses any when telling its story.
Rings
Rings, the latest Americanized and cannibalized sequel to 1998’s original Japanese horror flick Ringu, is the equivalent of a fever dream.
The Comedian
This movie is as funny as a puppy with cancer.
Gold
If this film wanted to make a salient point about the value of hard work or the perils of greed, that’d give us at least something to work with. But Gold’s core reveals little of value.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
If you’re looking for character development or compelling acting or anything other than a cinematic bucket of zombie chum chucked into your face, you’ve come to the wrong place.
20th Century Women
This raw, dialogue-heavy slice-of-life story is all aflutter with unmoored musings about self-actualization, rebellious teens, parental frustration and unanswered questions.
The Founder
The Founder tells Ray Kroc’s story, a tale of oversized success built on beef and buns. And in its cautionary subtext, it asks us, the folks in the audience, what we value.
xXx: Return of Xander Cage
This is the sort of movie that makes your standard shoot-em-up videogame look subtle, the Fast and Furious franchise (star Vin Diesel’s other claim to fame) look like a Jane Austen novel.
Split
Shyamalan relishes peeling back the layers of an unsettling storyline with disturbingly creepy savor.