Knock Knock
So bad it’s painful to watch, the film is a torture in itself
Movies
Southpaw
Worth watching solely for Gyllenhaal’s and Whitaker’s performance, but little else
A Royal Night Out
Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret escapes the palace for a mild night out
Deadpool
A smart, sassy, and refreshingly self aware super hero spectacle
Global Leadership for Educators and Teachers
Dr. Barry Kerzin on how honesty and altruism cultivates responsible leadership
Where to Invade Next
The unruly provocateur deconstructs the myth of American exceptionalism
The Huntsman: Winter’s War
For all the star power involved, The Huntsman never really comes to life
London Has Fallen
Gerard Butler’s career hangs on this derivative, worn-out action movie trope
Garm Wars: The Last Druid
Visually stunning but dramatically inert live action flick by Mamoru Oshii
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
This intimate documentary is a study in how not to make a vanity movie
Beyond the Reach
Vacuous, glacially paced; a wholly unsatisfying cat and mouse game
Macbeth
Stunning and unforgettable, the Bard would be glad to add this to his filmography
Backtrack
Derivative but watchable, solid performance by Adrien Brody
Hail, Caesar!
An affectionate, star-studded satire of postwar Golden-Age Hollywood by the Coen brothers
I Am a Hero
Managing to make a zombie movie touching, funny, emotional, and tense is no small feat, but Sato pulls it off
Captain America: Civil War
Not particularly entertaining, but at least its dramatically coherent
The Sea of Trees
Fake, forced and dreary suicide drama that will bore you to death
The Revenant
Most excellent storytelling
Zootopia
A hugely entertaining, Pixar-level effort from Disney Animation
The 5th Wave
The first half hour of this dystopian alien-invasion tale goes well, but it soon devolves into a hokey mess
Cop Car
Kevin Bacon, in a silly moustache, exercises his darkly comic side as the bent but not-too-smart sheriff
45 Years
A gentle examination of long-term marriage and its falsehoods
Mr. Holmes
Too many bland, overlapping stories that don’t mesh, and a general dourness overall
Sicario
Art-house action-suspense thriller with a message
Room
A poetic and profound film of many little wonders
The Big Short
This bit of edu-tainment leaves you amused, but thinking
Love (3D)
Visually striking, overtly risqué, pointlessly self-referential and gratuitous
Steve Jobs
A mesmerizing study of the high cost of genius
Banksy Does New York
Anonymous street artist stirs up the Big Apple, one artwork at a time
The Whole Truth
Not another Keanu Reeves movie…
Point Break
Beautifully filmed but awfully self-serious
That Sugar Film
Australia’s Damon Gameau explore the effects of a high sugar diet, a la Supersize Me
The Danish Girl
Touching, heavily fictionalized recount of the transformation of 1920s Danish artist Einar Wegener
Maggie
It was only a matter of time before Schwarzenegger did a zombie flick
The Martian
This near-future sci-fi saga is popcorn cinema at its best
Escobar: Paradise Lost
A Canadian gringo falls in love with iece of the Colombian drug lord, trouble ensues