Reviews

A reminder that the crispness of movies like “Drive” and “The Town” and “Killing Them Softly” doesn’t happen automatically.

Feels like such a duplication of the insights of “Take This Waltz,” while also struggling to even engage its own ideas, that it borders on pointless.

The idea of doing what’s right has rarely been delivered with as much twinkly hopefulness or underlying frankness.

Not the hilariously bad disaster you may have heard about but a prime example of superhero fatigue reaching cast members too.

A biopic that connects some dots and emerges with both affection for its artist and directness about the tragedy within.

Lazy, lifeless mush that finally answers, “What if a Hallmark Christmas movie tripped onto Netflix in late June?”

Mostly amusing and packing a couple good laughs, “Theater Camp” is neither the riot it might have been nor a total misfire.

Manages to capture likability even if you’re overall not entirely sure that you liked it.

A deceptively complex examination of the relationship between feelings and words, and how inadequately we often navigate the two.

The sort of movie that can actually teach people something about an issue without being only recommendable as education, which is far from easy and worth the effort.

Boasts terrific animation (a big change from the griminess of its predecessor) and eventually feels as exciting as watching someone else play a video game.

Could use a little less restraint, like a groove that missed the entrance for a solo.

Has a terrific understanding of how change happens, respecting what’s often a hard and painful process with an uncommon willingness to break through illusions.

Often seems aimed at people who died the moment “Seinfeld” ended, or at least whose TVs broke and were never fixed.

Only resembles romance in a world that sees “The Bachelor” fantasy dates as peak connection.

Gets off to a crackling start and proceeds to get dumber and duller without any hint of recovery.

Jolting and simultaneously entertaining and crushing stuff.

Murky and dumb and neither shallow nor deep and not enough of anything in particular.

Call it “Faint Praise: The Movie,” but “I laughed, I groaned, I didn’t regret it,” is praise all the same.

Considering how warped our dreams can be, “Dream Scenario” lands a long way from mind-blowing.