Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
American Gangster

Is this the new ‘Scarface’? Rapper Jay-Z thinks so, and is devoting his new CD to his new gangster muse. …

Drama, Musical
Whiplash

Andrew Neiman’s determined to become one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time. To get there he’ll have to …

Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
One Chance

Beyond a few notes about content, there are some movies that you shouldn’t know too much about going in. And …

Comedy, Drama, Romance
Christian Mingle

Finding Mr. Right can entail more than just a great outfit and a well-prepared dating service profile. Sometimes it takes …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Dracula Untold

A new dimension of the ancient monster Dracula is being exposed to the sunlight. Was he really just a misunderstood …

Comedy, Drama
St. Vincent

St. Vincent didn’t convince me of Vincent’s sainthood. But it does remind me that people are so much more than …

Comedy, Kids
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Walt Disney wrote the book on sweet, silly, slapstick family movies like this one.

Drama
The Judge

This judge-accused-of-murder tale is far less about legal entanglements and more about an estranged father and son searching for reconciliation.

Horror
Seed of Chucky

The evil, mass-murdering dolls Chucky and Tiffany are back, and now they have a child. Is it any surprise that …

Action/Adventure, Drama, War
Kingdom of Heaven

For a movie about a religious war, there’s little faith to be found onscreen. Instead, Ridley Scott brings a 21st …

Comedy, Horror
Piranha

The director of The Hills Have Eyes should have called his gorefest The Fish Have Teeth. Lots of them. More …

Drama, War
The Good Lie

Much like the 2006 award-winning documentary God Grew Tired of Us, this drama grabs Americans by the collar.

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Gone Girl

This adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel is filled with enough graphic content to earn the strongest warning Plugged In …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Left Behind

It struggles sometimes with plot holes and special effects but tries to make up for that by working hard to …

Drama, Horror
Annabelle

Threatened babies, ceiling-crawling demons, screeching occultists and bloody suicides do not a watchable movie make. Even in the horror genre.