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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.

This Barney-esque character is one you don't want your children around.

This debut feature from writer-director Alex Ullom is an exercise in atmosphere and style that upends the notion of a horror movie as four friends on a joyride wind up on a road to nowhere.

Director Jean-François Richet and star Jason Statham deliver the brutal, efficient action fans expect once “Mutiny” gets aboard its cargo-freighter setting, even if its faceless villains and sluggish Bangkok bookends keep it from rising above the genre's well-worn formula. It's a reliable entry in the "Statham movie" subgenre — not reinventing anything but competently cashing the check its star has built a career on.

Before Anthony Bourdain became the writer, chef, and provocateur the world would come to know he was an overconfident, often unlikable 19-year-old chasing a girl into a Provincetown kitchen, and writer/director Matt Johnson wisely keeps the focus there for this enjoyable, sharply-observed biopic.

This quick, dumb, fun action picture that doesn’t overexplain its “dinosaurs invade the suburbs” premise is a welcome respite from the typical mid-August movie dregs.

It's been a controversial road to the big screen for the new Looney Tunes film, but the movie survives the pressure and makes good by being entertaining.

A dystopian sex-ban premise is an excuse for breezy farce rather than pointed social commentary in this bright, exaggerated comedy that's propelled by the easy chemistry of Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner, resulting in a good-natured summer rom-com that mostly delivers on its own terms.

Gore maestro Eli Roth returns with an empty and repetitive splatter fest.