Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Women everywhere should wince and gasp at such a cinematic definition of feminine panache.
The Nice Guys
Life for the folks depicted in this late-’70s throwback portrait of Los Angeles is anything but pleasant.
The Darkness
Derivative. The word defines something that is “imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for that reason.”
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, at times, unnerving.
Money Monster
The movie isn’t actually trying to get us to barge into cable shows if our retirement portfolios dip, but its satirical tack is still troubling.
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War comfortably follows the CGI-enhanced template, but with one interesting change.
Keanu
The kitten is cute. The movie is not.
Mother’s Day
Sexual subjects and swearing make it much harder to hug this movie than it is to hold tightly to our real-life moms in the way Garry Marshall wants us to.
Elvis & Nixon
Elvis & Nixon wants to grant us an engaging peek behind the curtain. A fictionalized, occasionally obscene peek behind the curtain.
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.