The Promise
The Promise’s painful portrait of the Armenian genocide isn’t an easy one to watch. But the story it tells is worth hearing.
Colossal
Viewers who venture into this entertaining Godzilla-like send-up will also be singed by the pic’s fiery breath.
The Lost City of Z
So what we have here is a meticulously crafted and slow-moving film that captures the life of a man consumed by the heady beauty and aching magnetism of the unknown.
The Fate of the Furious
If the audience ever slipped into idle for 30 seconds, they’d realize just how physics-defying and ridiculous this frenetic cinematic shebang really is.
Going in Style
Even if Going In Style is intended to be a whimsical farce, it still plants a troubling seed: that successfully robbing a bank is possible, survivable and maybe even justifiable.
Gifted
Gifted delivers a warm, heartstring-plucking message about our inbuilt need to love and be loved. It proudly proclaims the self-sacrificial, life-changing joys of family.
Ghost in the Shell
There are some light good-versus-evil, humanity-versus-tech statements, and even a nod or two to family, but all-in-all the film doesn’t feel quite … human enough.
The Zookeeper’s Wife
The Zookeeper’s Wife, based on a true story, is a tender, beautiful, courage-filled movie. It’s also grim, devastating, at times surprisingly graphic for a PG-13 film.
CHiPs
Vulgarity—visual and verbal—runs rampant in this buddy cop reboot that’s ostensibly about law and order.
Saban’s Power Rangers
These five angsty high school heroes sometimes push rebellion to obnoxious levels, while sprinkling in rough-edged language and superfluous sexual innuendo.