The Finest Hours (2016)
[8] Chris Pine stars in this emotional rescue story about a heroic Coast Guardsman who leads a small crew into a winter storm to rescue the workers on a sinking oil tanker. The Finest Hours is based on the true 1952…
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
[7] Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell headline this true story about the largest oil drilling disaster in American history. Deepwater Horizon is essentially a disaster movie in the grand tradition of that subgenre, but director Peter Berg is sensitive to the…
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
[4] The old fraternity house next door to Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne has moved away... but now there's a sorority there -- and the girls are even worse than the boys were. Rogen and Byrne seek out their old…
Raw (2016)
[5] A strict vegetarian (Garance Marillier) attends a veterinary school where bizarre student hazing creates a craving for hunger that can't be satiated. Raw may sound like a gory horror film, but it really isn't that sort of movie. It plays out…
Now You See Me 2 (2016)
[4] Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine all return for another game of magicians playing cat and mouse. (Isla Fisher is noticeably replaced with a new character played by Lizzy Caplan.) I enjoyed…
The Boss (2016)
[3] And if you look out your window at the Isle of Misfit Movies, you might catch a glimpse of The Boss, an alleged comedy from 2016 starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, and Peter Dinklage. McCarthy stars as a crude…
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
[7] Tom Ford (A Single Man) adapts Austin Wright's novel to the screen, casting Amy Adams as a gallery manager whose writer ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) pops out of the blue twenty years after she left him to present her with…
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
[9] Not since 1980's Ordinary People have we had such a genuinely affecting movie about loss and mourning. In Manchester by the Sea, a man with a tortured past discovers he is the legal guardian of his late brother's teenaged…
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
[4] Rogue One is the first of what is sure to be many stand-alone or spin-off Star Wars movies over the next few decades. This maiden venture focuses on the events leading directly into Episode IV: A New Hope, with…
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
[7] J.K. Rowling takes a more firm hand with her franchise moving forward, both screenwriting and co-producing Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The new movie takes place 70 years before the events of the other Harry Potter movies,…