Nerve
Instead of a cautionary commentary, what we’re left with is a collection of pretty people doing reckless stuff while baring just enough skin to attract young viewers but sneak under the R-rated threshold.
Lights Out
Lots of kids are scared of the dark. Martin has reason to be. Shadows are dangerous in Martin’s world: The blackness under the bed. The webbed gloom of the closet. Something lurks in the lightless corners, watching, awaiting her chance. Just fanciful imaginings? Terrors in a little boy’s head? Martin knows differently. But what if […]
Café Society
If there is a point in this mostly pointless movie, it seems Woody Allen is asking: Why choose? Why worry? Why can’t we do what the heart wants to do? Why does it have to be so difficult?
Ghostbusters (2016)
Ghostbusting in any decade is far less kid-friendly than many would have you believe.
The Infiltrator
Do we need to wade through the brutal, cocaine-laced underworld that Bob Mazur inhabits?
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
The breakdown between naughty and nice in this predictable, formulaic, raunchy flick is about 95% naughty, 5% nice. And that’s probably being generous.
Captain Fantastic
Because God is missing here, Captain Fantastic falls short of its idealistic aspirations.
The Purge: Election Year
This is a gruesome psychodrama of class and racial warfare that projects an almost cartoonishly slanted political message.
The Legend of Tarzan
This CGI smorgasbord tells what Warner Bros. hopes is a bankable story, but it’s not a great one.
The Shallows
The Shallows isn’t just a “We’re gonna need a bigger boat” clone. It actually goes quite a bit deeper than that.