Drama
Me Before You

The movie’s determination to romanticize assisted suicide sends the chilling message to others who suffer similarly that their lives aren’t …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
X-Men: Apocalypse

Rote repetition absolutely applies to the bombastic brutality and f-word blast.

Comedy, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Nice Guys

Life for the folks depicted in this late-’70s throwback portrait of Los Angeles is anything but pleasant.

Comedy
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Women everywhere should wince and gasp at such a cinematic definition of feminine panache.

Drama, Horror
The Darkness

Derivative. The word defines something that is “imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for that …

Drama
Last Days in the Desert

Last Days in the Desert forces us to consider the humanity of Jesus in ways that can be challenging and, …

Comedy, Drama
Money Monster

The movie isn’t actually trying to get us to barge into cable shows if our retirement portfolios dip, but its …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War comfortably follows the CGI-enhanced template, but with one interesting change.

Comedy, Drama
Mother’s Day

Sexual subjects and swearing make it much harder to hug this movie than it is to hold tightly to our …

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Keanu

The kitten is cute. The movie is not.

Comedy, Drama
Elvis & Nixon

Elvis & Nixon wants to grant us an engaging peek behind the curtain. A fictionalized, occasionally obscene peek behind the …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Huntsman: Winter’s War

It’s not that this visually picturesque but overgrown pic is outright rotten. It’s just that it’s unpruned, shall we say.

Comedy
Barbershop: The Next Cut

The film somehow makes you feel like you’re simultaneously watching a well-oiled ensemble showcase and binge-watching a series of scatterbrained …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Criminal

Criminal is a fitting name for this movie. Indeed, we could say, “This movie is Criminal” and leave it pretty …

Comedy, Drama
Demolition

Numbness initially keeps Davis’ grief submerged, but the pain still leaks out, sometimes in the way Davis sees reality.