1. You know, until everybody turns into a superhero, the new Fantastic Four reboot isn’t half bad. You can see what…

1. I think if the Mission: Impossible franchise starred anyone other than Tom Cruise, we’d regard all these movies…

1. The original 1983 National Lampoon’s Vacation is a classic because deep down, it’s essentially a sweet movie. The…

1. Pixels is a perfectly acceptable idea for a movie that has unfortunately been Sandlerized. Based off a famous…

1. If you’re going to make a movie about a superhero whose superpower is being able to shrink to the size of an ant…

1. Terminator Genisys seems specifically designed to give you a headache. It’s a reboot, a sequel, a reimagining,…

1. How sincere is Sincere Seth MacFarlane? I know I’m a dope for even asking—associating a genuine emotion with such…

1. Considering how many Pixar films seem designed solely to trigger your tear ducts, it’s fitting that the studio…

1. Dope is a movie about ’90s hip-hop and black culture, but it feels like a throwback in other ways, too. That…

1. Here’s the only real question you need to ask yourself about Jurassic World: Does it bother you that such a theme…

1. San Andreas doesn’t hit a single beat you don’t expect, and there’s comfort in that. It feels like a ritual, like…

1. Tomorrowland is a movie about optimism and hope and brightness and good cheer, which probably explains why it put…

1. Pitch Perfect 2 is a total bummer, and it takes a while to figure out why. The 2012 original was such a pleasant,…

1. I quit smoking more than four years ago, but nothing—not a night full of drinks, not a table full of smokers, not…

1. I’m not sure why Jack Black keeps trying to insist that he’s a sad sack. After years of being a whirling dervish…

1. Perhaps the most impressive thing about the Avengers movies is how it never feels like they’re selling you…

1. Furious 7 has a scene I have been waiting a long, long time to see in a movie, and it happens twice. Two cars…

1. Of all the criticisms my fellow Gen-Xers have of Millennials, there isn't one that cracks me up more than…

If nothing else, The Gunman gives us a scene in which Sean Penn goes surfing. Of all the mysteries of centuries of…

1. District 9, the 2009 full-length debut from South African writer-director Neill Blomkamp, gave us an entirely…