Comedy
Fifty Shades of Black

To truly describe this movie, one must invent new words that mean “ridiculously foul,” only worse.

Action/Adventure, Drama
The Finest Hours

Disney’s The Finest Hours feels like an old-fashioned adventure yarn that wants to inspire as much as thrill.

Drama, Western
Jane Got a Gun

A whole lot of bullets find their final resting places in bad guys’ skulls before that riding-off-into-sunset scene finally comes …

Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids
Kung Fu Panda 3

As in past entries, the goofball, underachieving panda protagonist has a lot more than dumplings dumped on his plate.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The 5th Wave

There’s a huge difference between difficult topics and difficult—sometimes gratuitous—content.

Comedy
Dirty Grandpa

Dirty Grandpa lives down to its name, then plunges so much deeper into verbal and visual refuse that the word …

Drama, Horror
The Boy

The story’s super creepy setup makes a notable shift from the dark side, shall we say, to the psychological side …

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Ride Along 2

Comedian Kevin Hart’s crude and raunchy motormouth shtick is wearing thin.

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 …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Norm of the North

Jokes about what adults will be able to, um, “bear” aside, this is really a pretty awful kid’s film.

Comedy, Drama
The Lady in the Van

Caring is a messy business, the movie tells us, sometimes quite literally. Blessed are those who get their hands dirty.

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 …

Drama, Western
The Hateful Eight

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

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 …