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Writer-director Aaron Sorkin picks up the thread of his 2010 masterpiece "The Social Network" to explore the downstream effects of Facebook's impact on modern life. Spoiler alert: like this film, it's not great.

This reexamination of the first successful summit of Mount Everest is a handsome, sincere portrait of the man history too often left in Edmund Hillary's shadow, and even if it admires its hero more than it examines the world around him, lead actor Genden Phuntsok's understated performance and the film's immersive craft make it well worth finding on the biggest screen possible.

This quirky endurance test of a film partners Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Tom Cruise in a "big message" outing that's punishingly self-important but ultimately puddle-deep.

Mahershala Ali gives a potent performance as a devout Houston hitman left to raise three children in writer-director Bassam Tariq's confident and surprising genre-blending crime drama.

The latest attempt to adapt one of Colleen Hoover’s melodramatic page-turners delivers a few jolts of energy, but its monotonously repetitive structure is ultimately a bore.

This well-crafted but unremarkable man-versus-nature survival tale is elevated by a strikingly good canine performance, Brad Pitt's capable if underwritten turn as a war-scarred veteran, and beautiful cinematography of the Alaskan wilderness, all of which yields a moving tribute to the bond between man and dog in a film that earns its emotional payoff.

This genre-defying grief comedy about a Tokyo widow who rediscovers herself through ballroom dance is anchored by a remarkable Rinko Kikuchi performance, and while director Josef Kubota Wladyka’s surreal, culturally-specific take on mourning doesn’t always cohere it’s still a generous, imperfect film that’s well worth seeking out.

Zach Cregger's new film is a lean piece of genre filmmaking that doesn't feel beholden to the video game franchise.

Paul Greengrass brings urgency and a formidable ensemble to this dramatic retelling of the 1381 Peasant's Revolt whose class-conscious anger still carries a modern sting, but its reluctant hero never convincingly grows into a leader and the film’s restless camera and patchy digital spectacle leave its most ambitious moments feeling smaller and less affecting than intended.

This follow up to 1998’s durable cable-era comfort movie brings back Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as witchy sisters seeking a balance between their magical powers and family dramas, but with repeated emotional beats, ill-timed exposition, and a storyline that feels diluted, what should play like a flickering spell yields little more than smoke.