Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Ready Player One

Director Steven Spielberg has shaped Ready Player One as an over-caffeinated sensory explosion.

Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs has some nice messages and a worthy moral. But it also can be sad and kinda disturbing …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Unsane

Unsane is a nightmarish, darkly disturbing and corrosively foul movie.

Animation, Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Sherlock Gnomes

This is your standard, plastic, pink flamingo of a movie—colorful and cute and maybe even fun, but kinda tacky, too.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Pacific Rim Uprising

This fast-moving, rock-’em-sock-’em pic is what it is: a matinee creature-feature begging for a tub of butter-soaked popcorn.

Drama
Paul, Apostle of Christ

Let me just say this to aspiring faith-oriented moviemakers: This is how it’s done.

Drama, Romance
Midnight Sun

In some ways, this was a pretty typical teen romance movie. In other ways, it surprised me a bit.

Comedy, Drama, Romance
Love, Simon

The more you like a flick, the more it’ll potentially influence you. And Love, Simon aims to influence.

Action/Adventure
Tomb Raider

This Lara Croft reboot does female empowerment right, albeit in a slightly over-the-top, cinematic video game sort of way.

Drama
I Can Only Imagine

I was skeptical that a movie based on a song could work—no matter how great that song was. But I’ll …

Action/Adventure, Drama, War
7 Days in Entebbe

7 Days in Entebbe is a fascinating and, to my eyes, fair dramatization of that agonizingly long week.

Drama
Thoroughbreds

Thoroughbreds uses its detached female leads to unfold a slow-boiling commentary on our emotionally damaged society.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time is no masterpiece. But it still has a wrinkle or two of its own that families …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Hurricane Heist

I think we can all agree that actioners like The Hurricane Heist major in what we might call “the unbelievable …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Gringo

This dark comedy paints its supposed hero’s south-of-the-border torments in crude and nasty brush strokes.