Bridge of Spies
His is a story with a moralistic flare that might have stumbled in lesser hands.
Steve Jobs
Movies are a lot like people, too. Great ones are not always good ones. Steve Jobs, rated R as it is, serves as an example of that.
The Martian
Sometimes it takes a dead planet to make us appreciate the value of a single life.
The Intern
The Intern does some good work. But it never finishes the job.
The Green Inferno
Link Eli Roth’s name to the project and you get something else entirely. Namely, a rancid freak show of cinematic sadism.
Sicario
Sicario asks us questions of morality: How far is too far? To fight such monstrous evil, is it necessary to become evil ourselves?
Captive
Families may feel the film depicts more of Ashley’s and Brian’s sinfulness than they want to see. But this difficult and dark tale is clearly shown to be a radically redemptive one.
Black Mass
Such a detailed and explicit portrait of one man’s violent life arguably glorifies the brutality as much as (or even more than) it critiques it.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
An overlong frenetic freefall of a film that, for all its action, feels surprisingly bereft of drama.
The Perfect Guy
An utterly predictable, content-crazed PG-13 suspense story that mingles creepy and explicit sexual content with sharp moments of vicious violence.