KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS The fourth dazzling feature from the gifted and resourceful animators at Laika (following the largely stop-motion works Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls) is about a little boy […]
PETE’S DRAGON Bearing little resemblance—visually or plot-wise—to the 1977 Disney original, this new and vastly improved version of Pete’s Dragon is a heartfelt testament to friendship and family, with peripheral lessons about […]
SUICIDE SQUAD You know those people who feel the need to tell everyone that they’re “weird” or have a twisted sense of humor or are a geek from way back? These three […]
JASON BOURNE Remember when you believed that Matt Damon’s long-awaited return to author Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne character was going to be one of the saving graces of the 2016 summer movie […]
STAR TREK BEYOND Before I dive into talking about Star Trek Beyond, can I just say how much it warms my heart to see Greg Grunberg have such a great few months. […]
GHOSTBUSTERS Here’s the bottom line: I laughed watching Ghostbusters…a lot. It’s as funny a movie as we’ve come to expect from director and co-writer (with his The Heat writer Katie Dippold) Paul […]
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS People are being a little hard on this harmless little film about beloved and discarded house pets. Of course it’s derivative but a great deal of non-Pixar […]
THE BFG Try as I might, I could not wrap my heart around director Steven Spielberg’s latest, The BFG, based on the Roald Dahl book and the final screenplay from Spielberg’s E.T.: The […]
THE NEON DEMON Even when I don’t like his films (which is rare), I’m always glad writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn is out there in the world making movies. He’s something of a […]
FINDING DORY If I were the type of critic—and I’m not—to rank films that come out of the same production house (in this case Pixar), I think I’d slot their latest, Finding […]
THE CONJURING 2 You know a filmmaking team (especially in the horror genre) has confidence when a storyline involving the Amityville Horror case is relegated to the prologue of your primary, based-on-a-true-story […]
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS As I often do before I write a review of any sequel, I went back and reminded myself what my reaction was to the […]
