Venom
As a superhero story, Venom ironically lacks teeth.
If I Stay
After a bad car accident, young Mia has an important question to answer: Will she or won’t she … stay?
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
I wonder if Sin City itself is hell, in a way. It reminds me a little of the grey town in C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce—people living in a dark and joyless place, surrounded by their own sin and fear.
The Expendables 3
The film never stops. It never breathes. It never wants anything other than one more exhilarating slam-crash-pow.
Let’s Be Cops
It’s a felony to impersonate a police officer. And now we think it outta also be a crime to make a movie about it.
What If
Clearly, in its worst moments, What If conforms ever so snugly to 21st-century society’s anything-goes sexual ethos.
Step Up All In
Again, it’s all pretty routine for the pretty routines. Nothing worse than what’s come before, but nothing better, either. Certainly nothing worth doing a full-on happy dance over.
Into the Storm
While the special effects are better than what you’d encounter on, say, the Syfy channel, all that’s really separating this late-summer flick and Sharknado are the sharks.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Gamora, Peter, Drax, Rocket and Groot could never be called guardians of the whole hero concept, but in the end they do still manage to be heroic.
Get on Up
The Godfather of Soul gets a biopic. Will it make you wanna get on up and dance, or get on up to find the remote?