Let’s Be Cops
It’s a felony to impersonate a police officer. And now we think it outta also be a crime to make a movie about it.
Step Up All In
Again, it’s all pretty routine for the pretty routines. Nothing worse than what’s come before, but nothing better, either. Certainly nothing worth doing a full-on happy dance over.
Into the Storm
While the special effects are better than what you’d encounter on, say, the Syfy channel, all that’s really separating this late-summer flick and Sharknado are the sharks.
What If
Clearly, in its worst moments, What If conforms ever so snugly to 21st-century society’s anything-goes sexual ethos.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Gamora, Peter, Drax, Rocket and Groot could never be called guardians of the whole hero concept, but in the end they do still manage to be heroic.
Get on Up
The Godfather of Soul gets a biopic. Will it make you wanna get on up and dance, or get on up to find the remote?
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four has all the nuts and bolts and moving parts of a fun modern superhero movie—from attractive stars to CGI bombast. But it’s a super-suited tin man seeking a heart.
And So It Goes
Weighed down by foul language, inappropriate talk and sexuality unconnected to marriage, And So It Goes is neither as beautiful or as wholesome as you might think it should be.
A Most Wanted Man
One of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final acting turns, A Most Wanted Man, is a mature, measured look at the modern cloak-and-dagger trade.
Lucy
Evolution, brain-pumping drugs, superpowers, gangland shoot-’em-ups … and Scarlett Johansson. Another Avenger’s pic? Not even close.