Reviews
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‘Crash Pad’ Review: Domhnall Gleeson and Thomas Haden Church Make a Crackling Odd Couple
They’re both in love with Christina Applegate in a comedy that’s much smarter than its high concept suggests
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‘Novitiate’ Review: Melissa Leo Grounds a Visually Striking Study in Faith
Leo’s ferocious Reverend Mother anchors the film when it strays into stylization or an excess of repressed sexuality
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‘All I See Is You’ Review: Blake Lively Marriage Drama Is Blind to Its Own Shortcomings
There’s an intrigue to the dynamic between Lively and Jason Clarke, but Marc Forster’s POV excursions doom it
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‘The Work’ Review: Outsiders Meet Inmates in Prison for Intensive Group Therapy
A four-day Folsom Prison program bringing cons and civilians together makes for a bracing documentary
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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
