Drama
Room

Room can be crass and crude and incredibly uncomfortable to see. Room is also a thing of beauty—as inspiring a …

Drama, Sports
Woodlawn

Though the context of this movie—which is based on a true story—is football, its lessons apply to so much more …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Goosebumps

I’m not as sanguine as the film’s star regarding the appropriate age to see a movie like Goosebumps.

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Bridge of Spies

His is a story with a moralistic flare that might have stumbled in lesser hands.

Drama
Steve Jobs

Movies are a lot like people, too. Great ones are not always good ones. Steve Jobs, rated R as it …

Action/Adventure, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Pan

This explosion of CGI color is a long way from that beloved story about a boy in green tights who …

Drama
The Martian

Sometimes it takes a dead planet to make us appreciate the value of a single life.

Drama
The Walk

It just goes to show you that you don’t need a lot of R-rated content to make a pretty thrilling …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Hotel Transylvania 2

Anything in this oddball Halloween party pic worth really sinking your teeth into, though? Not really. But at least the …

Drama, Horror
The Green Inferno

Link Eli Roth’s name to the project and you get something else entirely. Namely, a rancid freak show of cinematic …

Comedy, Drama
The Intern

The Intern does some good work. But it never finishes the job.

Drama
Everest

There’s no real “woo-hoo!” moment by film’s end. It’s quite simply a well-acted, documentary-like chronicling.

Drama
Sicario

Sicario asks us questions of morality: How far is too far? To fight such monstrous evil, is it necessary to …

Drama
Black Mass

Such a detailed and explicit portrait of one man’s violent life arguably glorifies the brutality as much as (or even …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

An overlong frenetic freefall of a film that, for all its action, feels surprisingly bereft of drama.