Action/Adventure, Drama, War
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

13 Hours is a well-made, violent, profane, difficult movie. The fact that it depicts real, important events makes it no …

Horror
The Forest

There are hanging corpses, self-harming delusions and jump scenes aplenty in this pointless pic. Mostly, though, The Forest shambles around …

Drama, Sports
The Masked Saint

The idea of a professional wrestler becoming a pastor might seem, well, preposterous. But that’s the part that’s actually “inspired …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Point Break

Director Ericson Core drives a needle full of adrenaline into the original pic’s heart and blows the scope out to …

Drama, Sports
Concussion

This is a message movie, certainly, wearing its cautionary point of view on its toe tag.

Comedy
Daddy’s Home

It’s got a good—even earnest—heart when it comes to the never ending demands of fatherhood. But moviegoers are forced to …

Drama, Western
The Hateful Eight

But for all its obvious craftsmanship, The Hateful Eight is ruined by its unremitting incivility.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Western
The Revenant

The Revenant, like the land it depicts, is beautiful, brutal and unforgiving.

Comedy, Drama
Joy

Joy might be reason for, if not joy, then at least a bit of satisfaction.

Comedy
Sisters

With every sick, sad reference to sexual anatomy Fey and Poehler make, it just drags out longer and longer.

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip

What can you say about yet another Chipmunk movie? Surely nothing all that surprising. Or even enlightening.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

It’s not just the Force awakening in Episode VII. It’s the franchise’s charm. And maybe its life lessons, too.

Drama
The Big Short

The movie’s name really says it all. Sure, it’s a big movie. An important movie, perhaps. But it left me …

Action/Adventure, Drama
In the Heart of the Sea

While the surface story is pretty straightforward, there glides underneath (like the white whale itself) a spiritually tinged parable.

Drama
The Letters

Mother Teresa’s story is strong enough to inspire us, no matter how it’s presented. And so The Letters challenges each …