Keegan-Michael Key as Clarence and Jordan Peele as Rell in Keanu. Steve Dietl/Courtesy of Warner Brothers Pictures hide caption
Steve Dietl/Courtesy of Warner Brothers Pictures
April 28, 2016  The sketch comedy duo Key and Peele pull off the difficult feat of translating their sensibility into a feature film that recalls out-all-night sagas like Adventures In Babysitting.
Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Alia Shawkat and Anton Yelchin in Green Room. Scott Patrick Green/Courtesy of A24 Films hide caption
Scott Patrick Green/Courtesy of A24 Films
'Green Room': A Choreographed Thriller With A Spontaneous Beat
April 14, 2016  Green Room, from the director of the well-regarded thriller Blue Ruin, is the violent and inventive story of a touring punk band that gets in way over its head.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays a widower taking a destructive path through grief in Demolition. Fox Searchlight hide caption
A Widower, A House, And A Plot Hammer That Hits A Little Hard
April 7, 2016  Jake Gyllenhaal plays a man who starts literally destroying his surroundings out of grief in Demolition, from director Jean-Marc Vallee.
April 1, 2016  Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie captures conversations the filmmaker had with her mother, which take on additional weight given that both women have died since the film was made.
March 24, 2016  There's not much to My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, but for those who've missed the raucous Portokalos clan since 2002, it's fun to visit with them again.
From left to right: Christina (Zoe Kravitz), Tris (Shailene Woodley), Four (Theo James), Caleb (Ansel Elgort), Tori (Maggie Q) and Peter (Miles Teller) in The Divergent Series: Allegiant. Murray Close/Lionsgate hide caption
March 17, 2016  The third film in the Divergent series expends great effort to render the faction system on which it relies easier to understand, but that doesn't necessarily make it more entertaining.
John Goodman as Howard; Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Michelle in 10 Cloverfield Lane. Michele K. Short/Courtesy of Paramount Pictures hide caption
Michele K. Short/Courtesy of Paramount Pictures
March 10, 2016  Searching for the connection between 10 Cloverfield Lane and the original Cloverfield is sort of pointless and needless, and in the end, the non-sequel stands on its own.
Evan Jonigkeit plays Specialist Coughlin and Tina Fey plays Kim Baker in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Frank Masi/Courtesy of Paramount Pictures hide caption
March 4, 2016  Tina Fey stars as a war reporter in a film that struggles to attain a complicated tonal balance between comedy and commentary that it can't quite manage.
February 25, 2016  Gods of Egypt wants to be a story of mortals and gods living together, but it gets bogged down in its convoluted plot and CGI effects.
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A Banished Family Fights Its Demons In A Puritanical Age
February 18, 2016  Half a drama about religious hysteria and half a horror film about isolation, The Witch follows a family struggling to identify the source of an evil that seems to plague them.
Ben Stiller plays Derek Zoolander and Owen Wilson plays Hansel in Zoolander 2. Philippe Antonello/Courtesy of Paramount Pictures hide caption
Philippe Antonello/Courtesy of Paramount Pictures
'Zoolander 2' Can't Quite Walk The Walk-Off Anymore
February 11, 2016  It's not hard to believe Zoolander 2 suffers from plot problems, but even beyond that, it can't find the rhythm with its gags at the expense of fashion, either.
Annabelle (Jess Radomska) chewing her grandfather in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Jay Maidment/Courtesy of Screen Gems hide caption
Jay Maidment/Courtesy of Screen Gems
These 'Zombies' Make An Austen Update Even The Undead Can't Revive
February 4, 2016  Despite the success of the book Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, the adapted film does little to successfully marry the Jane Austen classic with anything interestingly scary.
January 21, 2016  It wants to be a Blade Runner-inflected noir, but Synchronicity does nothing with its femme fatale and is disappointingly repetitive of other, better films.
January 14, 2016  Director Michael Bay makes no effort to put history in context in dramatizing the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi; he treats it as a setting for rah-rah action.
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AKOORIS/Courtesy of IFC Films
In 'Anesthesia,' Separate Threads That Take Too Long To Be Joined
January 7, 2016  Sam Waterston stars in this ensemble piece that frustratingly refuses to reveal connections between its many stories until it's too late to engage viewers.