Hail, Caesar!
There’s always more than “surface” to a Coen collaboration.
The Choice
The Choice dutifully checks every expected box—both the poignant elements and the problematic ones.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Feels a lot like all of its extras: mostly dead.
Jane Got a Gun
A whole lot of bullets find their final resting places in bad guys’ skulls before that riding-off-into-sunset scene finally comes to the rescue.
Fifty Shades of Black
To truly describe this movie, one must invent new words that mean “ridiculously foul,” only worse.
Dirty Grandpa
Dirty Grandpa lives down to its name, then plunges so much deeper into verbal and visual refuse that the word dirty starts sounding clean in comparison.
The Boy
The story’s super creepy setup makes a notable shift from the dark side, shall we say, to the psychological side as the tale progresses.
The 5th Wave
There’s a huge difference between difficult topics and difficult—sometimes gratuitous—content.
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
13 Hours is a well-made, violent, profane, difficult movie. The fact that it depicts real, important events makes it no less difficult.
The Lady in the Van
Caring is a messy business, the movie tells us, sometimes quite literally. Blessed are those who get their hands dirty.