Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

[6] A big-budget studio action-comedy is one of the least likely candidates to catch my attention these days, but a few people insisted Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was a cut above the rest. And while the bar is low,…
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

[6] Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas, The Karate Kid) stars as a high school senior who resigns herself to babysitting when her date cancels at the last minute. But when her friend runs away from home and makes a panicked…
Outbreak (1995)

Outbreak (1995)

[6] Dustin Hoffman and Renee Russo star as an estranged married couple both working government jobs in the area of infectious disease control. When a fast-acting deadly virus begins spreading in America, the two find themselves working together to control…
Snatched (2017)

Snatched (2017)

[4] Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn star as a mother and daughter who get kidnapped while on vacation in Ecuador. While they try to find their way to the safety of the American consulate in Bogota, they reconcile many years…
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

[7] It's best to go into The Rise of Skywalker knowing that this third Star Wars trilogy has never had a strong guiding hand. It's not the result of a carefully premeditated creative effort. Creator George Lucas was not there…
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

[7] The impending apocalypse of Terminator and Terminator 2 Judgment Day was averted, but you can't stop technological 'progress'. Enter Terminator: Dark Fate, a direct sequel to the second film (ignoring two or three films in-between) that sets up a…
Ad Astra (2019)

Ad Astra (2019)

[6] Writer/director James Gray (The Lost City of Z) sends Brad Pitt into space in this film that takes place in the not-too-distant future. Pitt's mission is discover if his long-lost father (Tommy Lee Jones) is the culprit behind attacks…
Valhalla Rising (2009)

Valhalla Rising (2009)

[7] Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives) serves up this meditative drama about a mute, one-eyed, pagan strong man (Hannibal's Mads Mikkelsen) who fights for the entertainment of his Norse captors way back around the year 1000 AD. He…
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

[6] When it was William Shatner's turn to spearhead a Star Trek movie, he wanted it to be about a search for God in which God turned out to be the Devil. The studio let him have his way, and…
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

[8] After dealing with the death and resurrection of Spock in the previous two films, director Leonard Nimoy was given free reign with the fourth entry in the Star Trek franchise. Nimoy decided it was time for the series to…