Mass
Mass is in its own way more difficult to watch than a slasher flick. Here, bodies don’t bleed: souls do.
Eternals
Marvel’s latest, Eternals, offers a sweeping, syncretistic creation story that’s full of bargain-bin gods but no divinity or transcendence.
The Tender Bar
The Tender Bar has some nice family messages—wedged between a lot of obscenities and other tough content.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
This sequel to the classic ’80s comedy actioner is exactly what you’d expect—in both good ways and bad.
Last Night in Soho
Style, nostalgia, and cinematic panache can’t hide this pic’s cringe-worthy levels of content.
The Lost Daughter
The movie reminds us that motherhood is hard. But watching a bad mother ignore her kids and cheat on her husband is pretty hard, too.
National Champions
National Champions has passion to spare, but it’s more diatribe than compelling story.
Don’t Look Up
I’d advise families to take a tip from the first two words of this movie’s title: Don’t look.
Being the Ricardos
Being the Ricardos offers us a glimpse of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz that’s a lot grittier than their iconic onscreen characters.
Antlers
Antlers symbolically suggests messages about child abuse and environmentalism—all in the context of a very bloody story.