Calvin Wilson

Keeping Up With the Joneses is hardly worth the effort.

A Bigger Splash? More like a small trickle.

Manages to waste the talents of its strong supporting cast, which includes Thomas Haden Church, Patricia Clarkson, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm McDowell and Stanley Tucci.

This film might give you the urge to check out a comic-book movie.

Nocturnal Animals is far less imaginative than even your most banal nightmare.

On its own terms and against all odds, "Outrage" is adequately entertaining, with more than enough cringe-inducing violence and cruel humor to please the average American moviegoer. But true Kitano fans will find its title sadly ironic.

Episodically structured and lethargically paced, the new film attempts to convince us that there's something incredibly charming about an old guy who makes a habit of ogling young women. Actually, the whole scenario is pretty creepy.

An inconsequential mess.

It doesn’t help that Weisz and Claflin have zero chemistry, and both come across as miscast. She lacks the aura of mystery that her character requires, and he’s woefully low on the charisma required of a romantic hero.

Laggies is the kind of indie film that gives the genre a bad name.

Although it has a great look and offers a few thrills, the animated film 9 is one of this year's biggest disappointments.

As a melodrama, Brothers is passable entertainment. But the film squanders the opportunity to meaningfully portray the impact of war on American lives.

There’s a sharp comedy to be made about America’s misadventures in Afghanistan. This isn’t it.

It doesn’t help that the characters caught up in this fact-based melodrama aren’t particularly engaging. Or that Téchiné doesn’t seem to have much of a feel for the material.

Genius, like most films about the literary life, has trouble dramatizing what’s involved and making us care.

Only when there’s an opportunity to blow things up does Fuqua seem fully engaged. Another Western bites the dust.

It’s hard to understand what went wrong — the cast couldn’t be more appealing, and the film is bursting with special effects. But as an emotionally satisfying experience, it’s a bust.

This is the kind of film that makes moviegoers long for good, old-fashioned storytelling.

Strives to be entertaining, but for much of its run time it is so emotionally uninvolving that even the smallest children might find themselves bored.

This halftime walk is more like a long slog.

A documentary that clearly aspires to the highest standards of cinematic muckraking but makes for a frustrating experience.

McAvoy and Fassbender appealingly reprise their frenemy chemistry. But Lawrence has little to do but look perplexed.

Saint Laurent was a truly mythic figure. It’s a shame that Bonello’s film doesn’t do him justice.

Valerian has some cool visuals. But there’s more to science fiction than pretty pictures.

Skyscraper clearly aspires to be a 21st-century update of “Die Hard” (1988), one of the best action thrillers ever made. Instead, it’s just another film that squanders the movie-star charisma of Johnson, who should consider lending his box-office clout to more worthy projects.

A foul-mouthed comedy, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. "Bad Santa" (2003) also had plenty of crude language and lewd behavior. The difference is, "Bad Santa" was extremely funny.

Perhaps it’s time for a moratorium on road movies. Despite its strenuous efforts to come across as quirky and original, Boundaries goes nowhere.

Offbeat and unpredictable, Demolition takes a wrecking ball to audience expectations.