The Boss (2016)

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 version of…
Nocturnal Animals (2016)

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 a new manuscript.…
Manchester by the Sea (2016)

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 son. Casey…
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

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 a young…
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

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, centering around…
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

[8] Hailee Steinfeld (Oscar nominee for the Coen Brothers' True Grit remake) stars as a high school girl on the edge of a nervous breakdown when she discovers her best and only friend has begun dating her brother. Writer/director Kelly Fremon Craig beautifully…
Arrival (2016)

Arrival (2016)

[7] Amy Adams plays a linguist recruited by the military after aliens (the space kind) make first contact with human beings in twelve separate locations across the globe. Eric Heisserer's non-linear screenplay (based on a story by Ted Chiang) and Denis Villeneuve's…
Doctor Strange (2016)

Doctor Strange (2016)

[6] Benedict Cumberbatch stars as a celebrated surgeon who loses the use of his hands in a car accident and then pursues Eastern mysticism which, of course, leads to superpowers and magic and shit. Doctor Strange is another rote effort from Marvel Studios,…
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 movie has…
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 much alive.…