Comedy, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Nice Guys

Life for the folks depicted in this late-’70s throwback portrait of Los Angeles is anything but pleasant.

Animation, Comedy, Kids
The Angry Birds Movie

What more were we expecting from a cartoon based on a phone app that shoots miffed birds at pigs?

Comedy
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Women everywhere should wince and gasp at such a cinematic definition of feminine panache.

Drama, Romance
Love & Friendship

Call it an 18th-century romcom, if you will, a silly, sometimes winkingly salacious warm-up for the likes of Sense & …

Comedy, Drama
Money Monster

The movie isn’t actually trying to get us to barge into cable shows if our retirement portfolios dip, but its …

Drama, Horror
The Darkness

Derivative. The word defines something that is “imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for that …

Drama
Last Days in the Desert

Last Days in the Desert forces us to consider the humanity of Jesus in ways that can be challenging and, …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War comfortably follows the CGI-enhanced template, but with one interesting change.

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Keanu

The kitten is cute. The movie is not.

Comedy, Drama
Mother’s Day

Sexual subjects and swearing make it much harder to hug this movie than it is to hold tightly to our …

Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Ratchet & Clank

It’s a fast-paced, action-heavy story linked to the franchise’s games. It even attempts to strike a kid-friendly balance up on …

Comedy, Drama
Elvis & Nixon

Elvis & Nixon wants to grant us an engaging peek behind the curtain. A fictionalized, occasionally obscene peek behind the …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Union Bound

Union Bound is based on the real-life diaries of Joseph Hoover, and it is determined to remind viewers that slavery …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Huntsman: Winter’s War

It’s not that this visually picturesque but overgrown pic is outright rotten. It’s just that it’s unpruned, shall we say.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Jungle Book

An audacious—and kind of awesome at times—update of the Rudyard Kipling-written, Disney-appropriated classic tale.