Though often macabre, Henry Selick and Jordan Peele’s Netflix original avoids being too grim, offering pleasures in its goofy, gross-out humor and marvelously detailed stop-motion animation.

James Gray’s autobiographical account of growing up in New York in the early 1980s is messier than your typical coming-of-age story, and that’s a good thing.

This tropical rom-com never manages to be sweet, funny, or nasty enough, inhabiting a bland middle ground that’s saved largely by Julia Roberts and George Clooney’s enduring charm.

Stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite with writer/director Martin McDonagh for a darkly funny and deeply poignant examination of friendship, guilt, and forgiveness.