Reviews
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‘Thank You for Your Service’ Review: No Thanks for This Flat Take on Veterans
Miles Teller and Beulah Koale star as PTSD-afflicted Iraq War survivors in a film with little to say about their struggles
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‘Geostorm’ Review: Gerard Butler Punching Weather in the Face Would Make a Better Movie
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of idiocy stays this terrible disaster epic from the swift completion of its laughable rounds
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‘Same Kind of Different as Me’ Review: Renee Zellweger Brings Grace to Faith-Based True Story
Greg Kinnear and Djimon Hounsou round out the cast of occasionally affecting homelessness drama
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‘One of Us’ Review: Breaking up With G-d Is Hard to Do
Toronto: The directors of “Jesus Camp” focus, with empathy and understanding, on three people leaving Hasidic Judaism
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‘The Snowman’ Review: Michael Fassbender Thriller Melts in a Pool of Slushy Writing
Jo Nesbø’s best-selling serial-killer mystery becomes all coal and no carrot, despite a sterling cast and crew
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‘1922’ Review: Thomas Jane Haunted by Guilt in Stephen King Adaptation
This Netflix feature takes 101 minutes to tell an hour-long story, but there are vivid performances and visuals
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‘Leatherface’ Review: Umpteenth ‘Texas Chainsaw’ Origin Story Is a Bloody Bore
Grimy and mean-spirited, this prequel brings nothing to the legendary cannibal’s table
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‘Human Flow’ Review: Ai Weiwei Turns a Compassionate Eye to Refugee Crisis
This documentary challenges viewers to be aware and empathetic about this global phenomenon
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‘Long Strange Trip’ Review: Grateful Dead Doc Is a Rightfully Epic Jam
At four hours, Amir Bar-Lev’s loving tribute to the highs and lows of a legendary band should satisfy the faithful and intrigue the uninitiated
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‘Marshall’ Review: Chadwick Boseman Plays Young Thurgood Marshall in Punchy Thriller
Boseman brings another legendary African American to life in Reginald Hudlin’s zippy, focused courtroom drama
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‘The Foreigner’ Review: Jackie Chan Ill-Served by Choppy Drama
Chan disappears for a good chunk of the movie, leaving Pierce Brosnan’s clichéd Irishman to do the heavy lifting
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‘Tom of Finland’ Review: Legendary Gay Erotic Artist Gets Sanitized Biopic
Finland’s Oscar entry scrubs clean the talented illustrator behind those iconic sexy leathermen
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‘Happy Death Day’ Review: ‘Groundhog Day’ Meets ‘Friday the 13th’ in Repetitive Slasher Comedy
There’s a clever premise and charming cast, but this intentionally repetitive thriller doesn’t live up to its potential
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‘Faces Places’ Review: Agnès Varda Takes a Joyful Artist’s Journey Into Rural France
The acclaimed 89-year-old French filmmaker devotes her latest documentary to portraits of ordinary people
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‘The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson’ Review: Trans Icon Celebrated in New Doc
David France (“How to Survive a Plague”) recalls Johnson’s activism and investigates the suspicious circumstances of her death
