Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Whether you saw or avoided the original Guardians, that choice will likely inform what you do with Vol. 2, because …

Comedy
How to Be a Latin Lover

Quite frankly, even if you like the idea of giggling at a pot-bellied, over-the-hill gigolo in a speedo, it’ll be …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Free Fire

We find no cheery life lessons in the unremitting violence of Free Fire. No moral core. No heroes to root …

Comedy, Drama
Colossal

Viewers who venture into this entertaining Godzilla-like send-up will also be singed by the pic’s fiery breath.

Comedy, Drama
Going in Style

Even if Going In Style is intended to be a whimsical farce, it still plants a troubling seed: that successfully …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Smurfs: The Lost Village

Frankly, the Smurfs: The Lost Village’s creators do something really brave: They make a movie … just for kids.

Animation, Comedy, Kids
The Boss Baby

The Boss Baby’s eventual affirmation of sibling bonding and familial love makes all its toddler toilet humor a bit more …

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama
CHiPs

Vulgarity—visual and verbal—runs rampant in this buddy cop reboot that’s ostensibly about law and order.

Comedy, Drama
The Last Word

The Last Word could use an addendum: This R-rated movie wants to say something, but it seems confused about what …

Comedy, Drama, Romance
Table 19

Table 19 delivers an unexpectedly sweet ending by the time the credits role. Less sweet, however, is this PG-13 film’s …

Comedy
Tim Timmerman, Hope of America

Tim Timmerman, Hope of America mostly offers families a nice, watchable alternative to more salacious comedic fare.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Get Out

But whatever important ideas about racial alienation this movie may be trying to illustrate, we also can’t lose sight of …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Rock Dog

Rock Dog is a movie that is at times mildly charming (if predictable and formulaic) but more often just kind …

Comedy
Fist Fight

Fist Fight tries to tell us that what we say and do, and how we live our lives, matters. But …

Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The LEGO Batman Movie

A tiny bit more restraint could have made this a movie we’d wholeheartedly recommend. As it is, it’s pretty good, …