Much of this movie’s magicking revolves around Harry Potter-style witchcraft.
The essence of Ang Lee’s perspective seems to be that war is horrifically complicated. And what it does to those …
Wonderfully acted and deeply felt, Manchester by the Sea is also a difficult movie in every way.
Bleed for This is filled with brutal blows, bare bodies and occasional blasphemy. It asks us to look at Vinny …
The problem with The Edge of Seventeen is that it packs noxious teen-movie content into its humor and insight.
There’s no Independence Day-like bim-bam-boom here. No little green men or giant robots with laser eyes, either. In fact, this …
Despite this dramedy’s tender reflections on grief and its strong emphasis on family and forgiveness, the profanity here feels pretty …
Shut In is a thriller without the thrill, an exercise in jump scenes without the jumps. While it stays within …
This let’s-all-get-along tale is pretty much exactly the kind of felt-and-glitter silliness you might expect from a movie about something …
Aesthetically, Doctor Strange is a good movie, one of the strongest in the Marvel canon thus far. But is it …
Hacksaw Ridge is riveting cinema. But it’s also bloody—as bloody as we’ve seen on screen for a long, long time.
Loving, with its intimate scale and sparse content concerns, is an accessible, sometimes beautiful story about one couple’s love.
Inferno is one of those movies where the villain seems determined to launch doomsday through the most convoluted manner imaginable …
Madea represents a kind of no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners justice. She’ll get folks to act “right” even if she has to beat …
Everything is much like you’d expect it to be on this ride. The characters. The plot. The peril. The content. …
