Daddy’s Home
It’s got a good—even earnest—heart when it comes to the never ending demands of fatherhood. But moviegoers are forced to sit through a whole lot of crudity to get a glimpse of it.
Sisters
With every sick, sad reference to sexual anatomy Fey and Poehler make, it just drags out longer and longer.
The Big Short
The movie’s name really says it all. Sure, it’s a big movie. An important movie, perhaps. But it left me feeling seriously shorted.
In the Heart of the Sea
While the surface story is pretty straightforward, there glides underneath (like the white whale itself) a spiritually tinged parable.
Krampus
The spiritual ideas buried in this unsettling movie can be unearthed more easily in ways that don’t involve a goat demon.
Creed
I wish they’d left the profanity and sexual nods on the mat right along with the sweat and the blood. But there’s something undeniably affirming and upright about the rest of this.
Victor Frankenstein
A messy experience, any way you want to slice it.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is no more a nice movie than Katniss is a nice person. But it is a courageous movie, just as Katniss is courageous. And it cares about a cause, just as she does.
Legend
America cinema has long raised its glass to the gangster. Maybe it’s time for a different vintage.
The Night Before
The Night Before could have been called The Nightmare Before had Tim Burton not already made off with the name.