I didn't grow up with Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (or Sesame Street, for that matter). We didn't have cable yet when I was that age, and our TV...

Would you like to watch Toni Collette have a nervous breakdown for two hours? Hereditary is many things -- a haunting story about a disintegrating...

Ian McEwan's novel On Chesil Beach and the movie based on it (which he also wrote) tell a story set in 1962 England that could only work as a period...

Remember the Robert Redford movie All Is Lost, where he was stranded at sea? Adrift, with teen-romance veterans Shailene Woodley (The Fault in Our...

If the absence of Johnny Knoxville's Jackass has left a concussion-shaped hole in your life, it may be partially filled by Action Point, a juvenile...

Upgrade is an offbeat futuristic techno-thriller in the tradition of B-movies about scientists tampering in God's domain, made with enthusiasm (by...

"This is not based on a true story," say the onscreen titles at the beginning of American Animals. "This is a true story." A bold assertion, but...

While I've always liked the original Star Wars trilogy, I don't have the depth of knowledge (i.e., memorization) that some do, so there are probably...

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg started to become a pop-culture icon a few years ago, when the court shifted rightward and she found...

The imaginatively titled Book Club, about four women in their late 60s whose love lives are rekindled by reading the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy,...

What distinguishes Deadpool from most other superheroes is that he swears, kills people, and breaks the fourth wall. That is also, of course, what...

This week's "good enough, I guess, if you're not too picky" home-invasion thriller is Breaking In,"which offers the innovative twist of the bad guys...

You'll think you've seen Life of the Party before, or at least something very much like it: A dowdy, newly divorced mom goes back to college to...

The rape-revenge sub-genre has many entries, and everything about Revenge (including the title) sounds derivative until you get to the credits. How...

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...