Though well-intentioned, family animated comedy/drama Wonder Park struggles to find a tone consistent with its message.
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Gabrielle Brady’s documentary takes us to Christmas Island - a home to millions of migrating red crabs and an immigrant detention center that has caused significant grief and trauma all across the tiny Australian territory.
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Captain Marvel survives a lackluster first hour and becomes a fun, engaging, and important entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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An absolutely remarkable historical record, and brilliantly constructed documentary, showing us new footage of the first time American astronauts walked on the moon.
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Defying categorization, Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book is only for Godard’s most loyal and patience followers.
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Belgium’s stop-motion animation drama This Magnificent Cake! tells five short stories with Belgium’s occupation of the Congo in the 19th century as a backdrop. And it is unlike any movie I have ever seen.
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Domestic thriller Greta is campy, a bit delirious, but also far too silly and empty-headed to mean anything.
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Though it completely rewrites history, Fighting With My Family is an endearing, charming underdog tale regarding WWE Superstar Paige’s meteoric rise to the top of the WWE Women’s Division.
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With the arrival of The Hidden World, it is official - How To Train Your Dragon is one of the best trilogies, animated or otherwise, of all time.
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Rebel Wilson is pretty wonderful, leading her first film, Isn’t It Romantic?, a soft skewering of the romantic comedies we have watched a thousand times over.
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The plastic heroes from 2014’s The LEGO Movie return for a comedy adventure full of catchy music, rapid-fire dialogue and jokes, and a sense that maybe this franchise is starting to show signs of diminishing returns.
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Taraji P. Henson gives this her all, but What Men Want is a shabbily constructed rom-com that just never quite works.
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Shot on an iPhone 7, Steven Soderbergh’s NBA-themed basketball drama, High Flying Bird, now streaming on Netflix, emerges as one of the first great films of 2019.
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Gina Rodriguez does what she can, but Catherine Hardwicke’s remake of Mexican film Miss Bala is a poorly scripted disappointment.
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Serenity is an absolute disaster.
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Joe Cornish delivers an amusing, energetic take on King Arthur’s story with The Kid Who Would Be King, a nice escape of sorts for kids and families alike.
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M. Night Shyamalan delivers one of the most disappointing movies in recent memory with the inert and lifeless Glass.
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Polish import Cold War tells a visually beautiful, if not somewhat emotionally distant story, of a 15-year off-and-on again romance between a young singer and music director in 1950s Europe.
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Documentary Oscar hopeful Hale County This Morning This Evening is a powerful, observational look at small town life in a predominantly African-American county in Alabama.
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Barry Jenkins’ beautiful and bittersweet If Beale Street Could Talk stands tall and proud as one of 2018’s finest films.
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