Black Panther (2018)

Black Panther (2018)

[6] Somewhere in Africa, there's a secret society hidden away by fancy technology. They have, like, a really super-strong metal there that the rest of the world wants, but the secret African people know the rest of the world will…
I, Tonya (2017)

I, Tonya (2017)

[8] Margot Robbie is Oscar-calibre as disgraced Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding, who was stripped of her titles and banned from the sport after her husband spearheaded an assault on her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, in 1994. I, Tonya paints the picture of a…
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

[6] Thomas Horn stars as an nine-year-old boy who searches New York city for the lock to a mysterious key owned by his father, one of the victims of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. I can't…
Split (2016)

Split (2016)

[7] Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) presents a high-concept, low-budget horror-thriller that delivers the goods. James McAvoy stars as a man suffering from multiple personality disorder who kidnaps three young women and holds them hostage. The women, led by…
Ben is Back (2018)

Ben is Back (2018)

[8] Writer/director Peter Hedges (Pieces of April, About a Boy) casts his son Lucas (Manchester by the Sea, Boy Erased) alongside Julia Roberts in this emotionally gut-wrenching story of a mother trying to keep the peace at home when her…
All the Money in the World (2017)

All the Money in the World (2017)

[8] Ridley Scott (The Martian, Alien) directs the true-life tale of the 1973 Getty kidnapping. After masked men whisk 16-year-old John Paul Getty III off the streets of Rome, his mother tries to get the ransom money from the boy's…
Downsizing (2017)

Downsizing (2017)

[7] Matt Damon stars in writer/director Alexander Payne's (Election, Nebraska) film about a man who undergoes a miraculous new "shrinking" process so that he can live in a miniature utopia where his money is worth more... a lot more. Unfortunately, the…
The Shape of Water (2017)

The Shape of Water (2017)

[7] Guillermo del Toro serves up a fantasy love story set in the 1960s in which a mute janitor at a top-secret research facility falls in love with... well, a fish man. Sally Hawkins plays the janitor and Doug Jones (a…
Everest (2015)

Everest (2015)

[6] Everest is the true story of a deadly 1996 expedition up Mount Everest in which two climbing parties suffered casualties after a fierce blizzard engulfed the mountain with little warning. The film is more of a dramatic biopic than…
Lady Bird (2017)

Lady Bird (2017)

[7] Saoirse Ronan stars as the title character, an anxiety-ridden, pretentious, troubled -- well, normal, I guess -- teenager who does lots of teenagery things, like having sex for the first time and trying to get into college. Watching Lady…