Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

[4] Richard Linklater writes and directs Everybody Wants Some!! as sort of a follow-up to his own Dazed and Confused. It's the early '80s and a group of college baseball players live together in a couple of houses off-campus. The…
Ant-Man (2015)

Ant-Man (2015)

[6] Paul Rudd stars as one of Marvel's new feature film superheroes, a man who can shrink to miniature proportions with the help of a special suit. Michael Douglas shares a huge amount of screen time as the suit's inventor.…
Blair Witch (2016)

Blair Witch (2016)

[5] Blair Witch is a sequel that plays out more like an amped up remake of 1999's now-classic The Blair Witch Project. More kids are going into the Burkittsville woods where the legend of the Blair Witch is still very…
Sully (2016)

Sully (2016)

[8] Tom Hanks stars as celebrated pilot Chesley Sullenberger, who safely landed his U.S. Airways passenger plane on the Hudson River after the unprecedented scenario of losing both engines to bird-strike shortly after take-off. Director Clint Eastwood lets this true…
Midnight Special (2016)

Midnight Special (2016)

[6] Writer/director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud) serves up a supernatural drama about a father (Michael Shannon) trying to smuggle his son cross-country while avoiding both the government and the religious cult from which they escaped. Turns out the boy…
Don’t Breathe (2016)

Don’t Breathe (2016)

[7] Fede Alvarez (The Evil Dead remake) directs the hell out of this claustrophobic thriller about three horrible, stupid, awful twenty-somethings who break into a blind Gulf War veteran's home to steal $300,000, only to realize they've severely underestimated their…
Joe (2013)

Joe (2013)

[7] Nicolas Cage stars in his most interesting movie in many years. He plays an ex-con in an impoverished Southern community who becomes an unlikely role model for a 15-year old boy (Mud's Tye Sheridan) who is dealing with an…
Winter’s Bone (2010)

Winter’s Bone (2010)

[8] Jennifer Lawrence earned her first Oscar nomination playing Ree, a brave teenager raising her younger siblings in Debra Granik's Winter's Bone, based on a novel by Daniel Woodrell. When her drug-dealing father puts the family home up for collateral on…
Buried (2010)

Buried (2010)

[7]  For the entirety of this film, you never leave a pine box buried in the desert. It's a gimmick, but it's a good one. Star Ryan Reynolds and director Rodrigo Cortes work magic to build drama and suspense in…
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

[3] I dislike remakes in general, but Michael Bay can kiss a special place on my ass for remaking and homogenizing every horror classic from my childhood. His Platinum Dunes company is a shit factory, and A Nightmare on Elm…