Shazam! (2019)
[8] A young teen Billy (Asher Angel) is called upon by mystical forces and given the ability to turn into an adult superhero (Zachary Levi) at will. Together with help from his new foster brothers and sisters, he learns how…
Pet Sematary (2019)
[6] Ready for another Stephen King remake? I'm guessing we're going to see a lot more of them soon, thanks to the success of It. And It was ripe for a remake because, while it's loved in certain ways, a…
Gloria Bell (2019)
[5] Julianne Moore stars as the title character in this remake of a Chilean film, both directed by Sebastián Lelio. Moore plays a middle-aged divorcee whose children have grown up and no longer need her. She's stuck in a boring…
Passengers (2016)
[7] Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence star as passengers of an enormous spaceship en route to a new colonial planet. They're two of five thousand, all in hibernation for their 120-year voyage. But when asteroids damage the ship and cause…
Dumbo (2019)
[7] Director Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland) turns Disney's animated classic into a live-action film that is both a remake and a sequel. Dumbo follows the original story in broad strokes, with Danny DeVito running a down-on-its-luck traveling…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
[7] New York teenager Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is bitten by a radioactive spider and begins developing powers just like Spider-Man. He meets the real Spider-Man (Chris Pine) during an encounter with a villain named Kingpin (Liev Schreiber), who is…
Us (2019)
[7] Writer/director Jordan Peele follows up his sensationally well-received Get Out with Us, the story of a vacationing family who are attacked by doppelgängers -- four, strange characters who look just like them. What begins as a mysterious home invasion…
Captain Marvel (2019)
[6] It's another Marvel movie! And it's on the high-end of average, like most of their releases. This one is all about a new character, a pilot named Carol Danvers, who becomes the title hero. She doesn't know who she…
Dark Shadows (2012)
[5] Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of Dan Curtis' cult TV show Dark Shadows wants to be a comedy about a vampire transplanted from centuries past into the 1970s. That movie - one that focused on the vampire's relationships with his…
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
[6] Writer/director Dean DeBlois wraps up the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy with a mostly satisfying finale. In this third film, young Viking Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his comrades discover a second, rare Night Fury dragon -- and it's…