Money Monster
The movie isn’t actually trying to get us to barge into cable shows if our retirement portfolios dip, but its satirical tack is still troubling.
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War comfortably follows the CGI-enhanced template, but with one interesting change.
Keanu
The kitten is cute. The movie is not.
Mother’s Day
Sexual subjects and swearing make it much harder to hug this movie than it is to hold tightly to our real-life moms in the way Garry Marshall wants us to.
Elvis & Nixon
Elvis & Nixon wants to grant us an engaging peek behind the curtain. A fictionalized, occasionally obscene peek behind the curtain.
The Huntsman: Winter’s War
It’s not that this visually picturesque but overgrown pic is outright rotten. It’s just that it’s unpruned, shall we say.
Barbershop: The Next Cut
The film somehow makes you feel like you’re simultaneously watching a well-oiled ensemble showcase and binge-watching a series of scatterbrained and predictably offensive sitcom episodes.
Criminal
Criminal is a fitting name for this movie. Indeed, we could say, “This movie is Criminal” and leave it pretty much at that.
Hardcore Henry
Throwing yourself headfirst into a garage-sized blender would be pretty gutsy, too. Though not much of a movie night.
Demolition
Numbness initially keeps Davis’ grief submerged, but the pain still leaks out, sometimes in the way Davis sees reality.