There are two premises in Bad Samaritan, one that drives the plot and one that explains the villain's motives. They are middling premises, better...

Diablo Cody's screenwriting career started with a pregnant teenager named Juno. She returns to the subject of maternity with Tully, but there's a...

Any remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell "romantic" "comedy" Overboard would have to reverse the genders. A single father of three rowdy boys...

Some movies provide so much vivid detail about a character that you could practically write a biography. Lynne Ramsay's mesmerizing You Were Never...

There are no literal hauntings in Ismael's Ghosts, a wry, lyrical, but often plodding drama from director Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale), only...

You can go crazy trying to understand the thinking of people who make and sell Hollywood blockbusters, but what they've done with Avengers: Infinity...

You can tell Traffik is a serious movie about scary things because it's spelled with a "k." "Traffic," who cares? But "traffik"?? Watch out! Written...

Experience has taught us not to get our hopes up about long-awaited sequels, especially sequels to films whose charms were obscure or quirky to begin...

There are some good ideas and thoughtful insights buried in the very messy I Feel Pretty, a comedy about female self-image that is unsure of its own...

Few actors are better suited to play a diplomat than Jon Hamm, and the erstwhile Don Draper brings his gregarious A-game to Beirut, a compelling...

Based on the infamous 1969 incident in which a young woman drowned after a probably-drunk Sen. Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge into a pond,...

It's laudable to convert harmless childhood games into horror premises, but Truth or Dare does it with such rote blandness that the movie is...

Rampage is one of the better video-game-based movies, a low bar that it clears only by forsaking the entire premise of the game. The mid-80s arcade...

As a proponent of the "shut up and watch the movie" school of thought, I have a special fondness for films that actively encourage silence. The tense...

It is a time-honored tradition that teens in movies make pacts with one another to lose their virginity, but seldom are those teens female girls of...