Comedy, Romance
Bridget Jones’s Baby

Bridget Jones’s Baby wasn’t a horrible movie. It’s funny in places. But even though I laughed, it made me sad, …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Disappointments Room

This movie’s title is fitting: It’s a disappointment all the way ’round.

Animation, Comedy, Kids
The Wild Life

Pixar-like moments? Sweet scenes that require wiping a tear from your grown-up eye? Nope, not a one. But then there …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
When the Bough Breaks

When the Bough Breaks paints a nasty, bloody, worst-case-scenario picture of what can (theoretically) happen when using a surrogate to …

Drama
Sully

Eastwood’s Sully is a deeply humanistic movie in the best possible way.

Drama
The Light Between Oceans

While it isn’t explicitly a movie about God, The Light Between Oceans powerfully, poignantly deals with the passion, sacrifice, grace …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Morgan

Morgan is a provocative, speculative, gruesome sci-fi thriller by first-time director Luke Scott, the son of the film’s famous producer, …

Comedy, Drama
The Hollars

This movie’s unfortunate profanity—especially those misuses of Jesus’ name—may drive it out of bounds for family-focused viewers who would likely …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Don’t Breathe

Everybody is wrong and wronged here, tortured and torturer. Some more than others.

Drama, Sports
Greater

Greater treads off the beaten sports-movie path into deeper philosophical and spiritual questions. And it refuses to give a pat …

Drama, Sports
Hands of Stone

At its core, Hands of Stone is a movie about men pounding each other into submission, even to the point …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Mechanic: Resurrection

Mechanic: Resurrection is the Donkey Kong of the cinematic world. There’s not much of a plot, and what there is …

Drama
War Dogs

War Dogs is a profane cautionary tale about what happens when greed and cleverness inevitably undermine integrity in the pursuit …

Action/Adventure, Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Kubo and the Two Strings

All of Kubo’s eye-, ear- and heart-pleasing stuff masks some spiritual philosophies that parents may not be expecting.

Comedy, Drama
Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins reminds us all that, sometimes, passion trumps perfection. That what we love doesn’t always make sense.