Passengers
If Passengers teaches us anything, it’s only as an afterthought. The film is an entertainment vehicle. And like the spaceship we see on screen, it does its job only halfway well.
Assassin’s Creed
Between its tortured logic and its fatalistic view of religion, Assassin’s Creed does little more than kill off a couple of hours that might have been better used.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Rogue One is theoretically a different kind of Star Wars movie. Except that it’s not.
Collateral Beauty
The whole production feels like a mildly melodramatic stage play that isn’t afraid to take its time and to wax poetic with its philosophical musings.
Office Christmas Party
Office Christmas Party is, quite simply, yet another entry in a long line of sleaze-in-your-stocking holiday forgettables.
La La Land
Director Damien Chazelle unleashes an old-school, tour de force musical, proving that original, Oscar-worthy moviemaking—without R-rated gratuity—is actually still possible in Tinseltown.
Nocturnal Animals
Nocturnal Animals is a devastating movie about sin and retribution. It’s as searing as a thunderbolt, as poisonous as the strike of a snake.
Jackie
Jackie is a moving, surprisingly spiritual portrait of a woman grieving in the public eye and, in so doing, shaping a nation’s story. And it reminds us all of just how important our stories are.
Incarnate
So is it possible to make an effective exorcism story without, y’know, all that God stuff? No. And Incarnate proves it.
Miss Sloane
We’re living in a time of intense cultural and political polarization. Miss Sloane determinedly pitches its compelling (though at times racy and profane) story to one side of that divide.