Passengers (2016)

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 Pratt's character…
Elle (2016)

Elle (2016)

[8] Isabelle Huppert stars as a woman trying to learn the identity of the man who raped her. Based on that description, I pegged Elle for a revenge story, but it's much more complicated and interesting than that. As the film unfolds,…
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 Anya Taylor-Joy…
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 a sensational…
The Void (2016)

The Void (2016)

[4] A motley group of townsfolk fall under siege at a nearly-abandoned hospital surrounded by mysterious, hooded cult figures brandishing knives. Before they can figure out who the cultists are or what they want, strange creatures start popping out of the shadows…
The Finest Hours (2016)

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 story, which…
Deepwater Horizon (2016)

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 fact that…
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

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 fraternity nemesis,…
Raw (2016)

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 more like…
Now You See Me 2 (2016)

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 first…