Calvin Wilson

The film eventually runs out of rocket fuel, piling on the special effects but arriving at a disappointing conclusion.

Despite its intriguing premise, the film amounts to little more than tedious, clichéd melodramatics.

In a small role as a self-absorbed film producer, Mark Wahlberg is touchingly effective.

If being seated at Table 19 is a drag, watching the film of the same name is worse.

Suicide Squad had the potential to be as hilariously irreverent as “Deadpool,” a surprise box-office hit about a similarly sociopathic hero. Instead, it’s just another film that relies on special effects to distract the audience from a story that’s overblown and underwhelming.

Working from a lackluster screenplay by a squad of writers, director Taylor Hackford (“Ray”) delivers a film so low in energy that it’s almost as if it was made to assist airline passengers in falling asleep.

Seth Rogen is the Green Hornet. What else do you need to know?

The franchise has sadly devolved into a cynical cash grab.

Third Person doesn’t lack for ambition, and it’s nice to see Neeson in the kind of role that he excelled at before he morphed into an action star.

A would-be light thriller that's so deficient in the genre's essentials - such as witty dialogue, intriguing characters and surprising yet credible plot turns - that you're embarrassed for everyone involved.

The comedy is so lame that the whole enterprise comes across as depressing.

Oyelowo and Mara achieve terrific chemistry. Perhaps they’ll work together again — in a better film.

Working from a screenplay by Jason Fuchs, director Joe Wright seems overwhelmed by the material, and he fails to make us care about any of the characters.

After watching Post Grad, you may wonder whether Hollywood will ever stop making generic comedies with zero tolerance for originality.

Keeping Up With the Joneses is hardly worth the effort.

Webb delivers a film that’s somewhat derivative, but succeeds as a welcome alternative to superhero extravaganzas.

Loosely - very loosely - based on the classic Jonathan Swift story, "Gulliver's Travels" begins promisingly but quickly loses its way.

Although the film begins promisingly, it proves to be little more than a soap opera.

Annie is not a great movie musical — but it’s a fun time at the movies.

In Hollywood, it’s all about the concept, and some studio executive must have thought it would be fun to watch Adams slogging around in the Irish mud. Unfortunately, there’s no accounting for taste.

As cop comedies go, Ride Along 2 gets the job done.

As original and risk-taking as its subject, Steve Jobs will make you think differently about an American icon.

In a way, Stonewall is proof that the gay community has fully made the transition to the mainstream. It’s now subject to the kind of Hollywood nonsense that was previously reserved for heterosexuals.

The best that can be said for this film is that it’s short.

Collateral Beauty is based on a premise so preposterous that the film shouldn’t work. But the illusion of credibility is sustained just well enough to keep things from falling apart.