A Bigger Splash
Into the the deep end
Movies
The Girl on the Train
Emily’s great, but Gone Girl this isn’t
Miss You Already
A brilliant Collette in a weepy womance
Deepwater Horizon
Absorbing disaster drama on a human scale
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
A truly impossible mission
Every Thing Will Be Fine
Must an artist suffer? Must you?
Eddie the Eagle
Try like an eagle
Storks
Frenetically paced babysitter
Sausage Party
Dumb, smart and subversive
Rabbit Island
Cute rabbits, dark history.
Everybody Wants Some!!
Gleefully plotless; deceptively wise
Inferno
Hanks looks a little bored
The Gift
Expectations-defying psycho-thriller
Concussion
Erin Brockovich meets the NFL
Remember
Perplexing yet engaging revenge potboiler
Bridget Jones’s Baby
A sex comedy for all ages
Pay the Ghost
But not the ticket price
Jane Got a Gun
A well-armed eternal triangle
Our Kind of Traitor
Minor Le Carré, but entirely watchable
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Formulaic biopic about an extraordinary thinker
Me Before You
Excruciating weepie
The Last Witch Hunter
You promise?
Sully
What makes a hero?
Jason Bourne
Diminishing returns
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
And frustration
Genius
Legendary book editor Max Perkins (Colin Firth) had already made the careers of Hemingway and Fitzgerald when Thomas Wolfe’s (Jude Law) Look Homeward, Angel came in over the transom. This film about these two geniuses is insightful, educational, a bit stagey and often dull. But in an age of 140-character communication, there’s room for a […]
I Saw the Light
Another dead singer movie
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Brilliant tribute to the rock and roll singer
The Angry Birds Movie
Even kids deserve better
Correspondence
Artificial and clumsily translated to boot
Seymour: An Introduction
...to an interesting, inspirational guy
Mechanic: Resurrection
Statham can do better
By the Sea
Basically Brangelina couples therapy
The BFG
A Big, Friendly time at the movies
Gods of Egypt
Egypt should sue
Suicide Squad
A quirky, nihilistic Avengers