If the original Mean Girls was a gentled version of Heathers — and yeah, that’s probably unfair, since films should be allowed to stand or fall on their own merits, but for viewers of a certain age, the similarities were simply too salient to ignore, what with the plucky outsider …
A home-schooled teenager, raised in the wilds of Africa, is let loose as an innocent in the American public school system, and the worn-out subject of adolescent cattiness and bitchery receives an infusion of fresh blood, or at any rate a megadose of caffeine. The snap-crackle-pop script (from a book …
New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the …
A fascinatingly original takes on the subject of what made Hitler Hitler, and why a nation paid any mind to a radical loser. It doesn’t take filmmakers Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker (Gunnar’s Palace) but 125 seconds to mention Trump by name, and still I found myself asking, “Why so …
First, he stole Christmas. Now, he's back for blood. Just in time for the holidays, this Grinch parody recasts the eventual hero of Whoville as a vicious murderer. Directed by Steven LaMorte and written by Flip and Finn Kobler.
The veteran Miami crime reporter is on the brink of burn-out: "I don't want to see my name in the paper next to pictures of dead bodies anymore." But his handling of a serial murder story so impresses the perpetrator that the latter phones him up and nominates him as …
Martin Scorsese's volatile movie about reaching adulthood in New York's "Little Italy" is made up of a fistful of tough, partial truths, which are repeated frequently and adamantly to create the impression of the whole truth. His main idea of how to keep the excitement at a fever-pitch is to …
Elsa (Megan Northam) and her family are struggling following the disappearance of her brother Franck, an astronaut who vanished during his first mission. While stargazing one night, Elsa is shocked to receive contact from Franck, but her joy is short-lived when she learns of the dark and troubling forces behind …
A group of rowdies target a horizontally challenged teen in this well-intentioned comedy about bullying. Jim Loach (Oranges and Sunshine) directs an all-star cast.
Jojo Moyes adapts her own novel, Thea Sharrock directs, and Emilia Clark stars as a funny girl who starts up an unlikely romance with wheelchair-bound rich boy Sam Claflin. Bring your own hankie.
Filmed in a static, pedestrian style, the story never surfaces above its clichéd roots. Jason Statham takes on the role of assassin mentor to a lost cause with temper issues. Ben Foster, in the latter role, is reduced to the loose cannon, the sidekick. Statham attempts to preserve his rugged, …
Jason Statham returns as Arthur Bishop in the sequel to 2011's Mechanic. This time he must save his love, Gina (Jessica Alba), from bad guy Max Adams (Tommy Lee Jones). Directed by Dennis Gansel.
Romantic action film with Vishwak Sen as a seemingly everyday mechanic with a mysterious past and an arsenal of deadly skills. Written and directed by Ravi Teja Mullapudi, starring Vishwak Sen and Meenakshi Chaudhary.
"The Holy Grail of Eastern mythology" grants Jackie Chan a second life after drowning, in addition to superpowers even more super than his normal ones. British comedian Lee Evans bests him in the humor department, however, and the movie as a whole drains away between its widely separated moods. As …
Meddlers gonna meddle. A widow decides to get involved in her daughter's life. But then: JK Simmons shows up doing his best Sam Elliott. Could it be love? Susan Sarandon and Rose Byrne star. Lorene Scafaria writes and directs.