Beneath rivulets of blood and lugubrious storytelling are beautiful messages about freedom, equality, self-reliance and the faith that undergirds it …
In Independence Day: Resurgence, love—of country, of home, of others—conquers all, even if aliens destroy much of humanity before we …
Dory’s determination to return home, then, becomes a series of teachable moments about loss, parental nurturing, friendship …
Central Intelligence takes some sadly predictable detours.
For Christians who already know God is out there, do they need to face these cinematic demons?
A big-budget sequel that packs a lot more ridiculous and pointless CGI flash up its cinematic sleeves than anything approaching …
Popstar wittily—but often very crudely—deconstructs the self-absorbed narcissism that traps ego-driven stars in a bubble world of their own creating.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows tries to replicate the goofy charm of the original 1987-96 animated TV …
The movie’s determination to romanticize assisted suicide sends the chilling message to others who suffer similarly that their lives aren’t …
Rote repetition absolutely applies to the bombastic brutality and f-word blast.
This yesterday-and-tomorrow-but-never-today amusement feels less dark and dangerous than the Alice in Wonderland original.
Life for the folks depicted in this late-’70s throwback portrait of Los Angeles is anything but pleasant.
Women everywhere should wince and gasp at such a cinematic definition of feminine panache.
What more were we expecting from a cartoon based on a phone app that shoots miffed birds at pigs?
Derivative. The word defines something that is “imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for that …
Call it an 18th-century romcom, if you will, a silly, sometimes winkingly salacious warm-up for the likes of Sense & …
The movie isn’t actually trying to get us to barge into cable shows if our retirement portfolios dip, but its …
Last Days in the Desert forces us to consider the humanity of Jesus in ways that can be challenging and, …
Captain America: Civil War comfortably follows the CGI-enhanced template, but with one interesting change.
Sexual subjects and swearing make it much harder to hug this movie than it is to hold tightly to our …
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 …
It’s not that this visually picturesque but overgrown pic is outright rotten. It’s just that it’s unpruned, shall we say.
Union Bound is based on the real-life diaries of Joseph Hoover, and it is determined to remind viewers that slavery …
