Reviews
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‘Boundaries’ Film Review: Vera Farmiga-Christopher Plummer Road Trip Has Its Limits
The stars have their moments as a stressed mom and her delinquent dad, but early promise gives way to by-the-numbers sentiment
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‘Tag’ Film Review: Entertaining Action Comedy Chases in Too Many Directions
It doesn’t quite balance its Jackie Chan slapstick with its James L. Brooks sentiments, but it’s a fun way to spend recess
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‘Incredibles 2’ Film Review: Pixar’s Superhero Family Is Back, Baby – and What a Baby
Whatever the opposite of phoning in a sequel is, that’s Brad Bird’s progressive-minded, thunderously fun mix of super saves, throwback aesthetics and family comedy
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‘Bernard and Huey’ Film Review: Jules Feiffer’s Cartoon Characters Don’t Translate to 3 Dimensions
The leads, played by David Koechner and Jim Rash, tell you right away they’re neurotic narcissists, and that’s all the film has to say about them
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‘Half the Picture’ Film Review: Women Directors Tell All in Illuminating, Infuriating Doc
Vets like Ava DuVernay and Catherine Hardwicke share stories from an industry that still suffers from a shocking gender disparity
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‘Alex Strangelove’ Film Review: Bittersweet Coming-Out Comedy Takes Teens Seriously
Writer-director Craig Johnson (“The Skeleton Twins”) gets the hilarity and the angst just right
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‘Hotel Artemis’ Film Review: Jodie Foster Heals Criminals, but This Dystopian Thriller Still Ails
A messy, dumb, but occasionally entertaining future-imperfect thriller about a hospital for bad people
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‘A Kid Like Jake’ Film Review: Claire Danes’ and Jim Parsons’ Parental Problems Push the Kid Offstage
Jake likes to dress up as Disney princesses, but he gets too little camera time in this stagebound drama
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‘Upgrade’ Film Review: Logan Marshall-Green Battles Bad Guys in A.I. Revenge Thriller
The latest from “Saw” and “Insidious” creator Leigh Whannell is a funny, splattery mess
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‘American Animals’ Film Review: Entertainingly Fizzy Heist Movie Defies Expectations
This squirrelly rundown of a real-life art caper engineered by bored college kids fuses narrative and documentary, fantasy and reality
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‘Adrift’ Film Review: Shailene Woodley Helps Steer Fact-Based Tale of Sea Survival
A California woman’s true “All Is Lost”-like tale becomes a mixed-bag movie of romance and stranded peril in the Pacific
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‘Summer 1993’ Film Review: Sensitive Debut Follows Motherless Girl to New Family
Reflecting on her own childhood tragedy, Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón tells a heartwarming, honest story of a six-year-old’s resilience
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‘Mary Shelley’ Film Review: Elle Fanning, and the Author She Plays, Deserve a Better Movie
This ironically lifeless biopic of the “Frankenstein” author seems more interested in judging her life choices than celebrating her genius
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‘The Gospel According to André’ Film Review: Vogue’s André Leon Talley Recalls His Stylish Life
From the Jim Crow-era South to Paris to the Olympus of fashion journalism, André Leon Talley is a deity of taste and vision
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‘Show Dogs’ Film Review: Sloppy, Unfunny Comedy Merely a Collection of Pet Peeves
There’s a reason talking animal movies often get a bad rap, and this Vegas-set dud is a perfect example
