This sequel with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway scores points for becoming a genuine continuation rather than a retread of the 2006 original.
This fast-paced adventure benefits from peppy direction by Guy Ritchie and charismatic performances from a cast led by John Krasinski and Natalie Portman that results in a largely agreeable experience.
Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown wander a narrative void in this technically first-rate film that requires viewers be doing something else while “watching” it.
This sharp drama operates as both a finely-tuned thriller as well as fascinating look behind the scenes at the Vatican, bolstered by a first-rate cast.
Matthew Vaughn’s sequel to his Kingsman films drops the flippant comedy for old-fashioned adventure
This wackadoodle sequel goes light on the Hasbro toy robot action and heavy on the centuries-spanning Arthurian legend backstory
Disney’s latest live-action remake of a beloved cartoon does little more than remind us of the earlier film
Boston Globe reporters uncover Catholic Church cover-ups in this standout production, Oscar winner for 2015’s Best Picture
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 has some standout sequences, and gives the franchise a fitting (if protracted) conclusion
A Little Chaos might be lightweight in conception, but it’s brought to vivid life through some evocative atmosphere and rich performances
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 is only the first half of the final chapter of Suzanne Collins’ immensely popular young adult franchise
Transformers: Age of Extinction, director Michael Bay’s fourth foray into robots-in-disguise franchise, has delivered the goods
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire represents a more-than-solid entry in the post-apocalyptic young adult franchise
Can’t-miss premise, intelligent script, taut direction, outstanding cast…where did Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep go wrong?
Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer – a big-budget, CGI-infused take on Jack and the Beanstalk – is one of the more unlikely fairy tale updates
Gambit boasts a script by Joel and Ethan Coen, from the original 1966 Michael Caine caper movie of the same name.
The Hunger Games is a surprisingly serious-minded piece of young adult sci-fi from the bestselling series of novels by Suzanne Collins
Captain America: The First Avenger represents some of the best of what the Marvel universe has brought to the screen
Burlesque isn’t just a bad movie, it’s the worst kind of a bad movie: a tediously conventional slog that denies us even the smallest pleasures
The Lovely Bones is also an incredibly misguided film that feels icky and unpleasant and all sorts of wrong
There’s exactly half a great film in Nora Ephron’s Julie and Julia: the Julia half, based on Julia Child’s My Life in France
Beautifully drawn, imaginatively composed, I like a whole lot of The Tale of Despereaux but left wanting a whole lot more
Lasse Hallström´s The Hoax comes close to hitting the mark at various points along the road but falls just short