The Sense of an Ending is a small British drama based on a Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name. But don’t let the size of the movie fool you—the humanity on display far exceeds what seem to be modest cinematic goals.

Kong: Skull Island is about exactly what you’d expect from a movie called Kong: Skull Island . That’s not necessarily a criticism.

What happens when our superheroes get old? It’s essentially something that never happens in our movies, where our heroes are always virile and robust, and if they get a little long in the tooth, we just reboot the series and start over with a younger model. But that’s not the case with Logan , which follows maybe the most famous of the X-Men, Wolverine, as he not only deals with his own broken-down body, but with nursing the longtime leader of the X-Men, professor Charles Xavier. Xavier is now

It turns out none of us is quite as forward-thinking as we’d like to imagine we are. That’s one of the major takeaways from Get Out , the incisive new thriller from Jordan Peele of TV’s sketch comedy duo Key & Peele. And the movie itself is funny, though it’s certainly not a comedy. It’s first and foremost a real horror movie, one with serious racial tones, and one that pulls no punches.

Give The Great Wall credit for at least one thing: It gets straight to the point.

2014’s The Lego Movie was a manic and inspired delight, a dazzling array of colors with a new joke about every five seconds. The next, newest installment in what’s apparently becoming a franchise, The Lego Batman Movie , is about half of what The Lego Movie was. Now when I say that, I don’t mean that it’s only half as good as The Lego Movie .

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, I’ve seen a very funny movie… but this wasn’t it. A movie called The Comedian isn’t required to be funny. There are plenty of reasons a movie with that title might not be. A movie called The Comedian that features at least half a dozen extended sequences of standup comedy probably should be at least a little bit funny. Here, no such luck. Instead, we have Robert De Niro as a bitter insult comic who’s known more for a sitcom he starred in decades before than he is for

From the opening chords to the score of Jackie , something feels a bit off.

M. Night Shyamalan has had a strange career. The director kicked down the door with 1999’s The Sixth Sense , then had a couple of fantastic follow-up films before falling hard and fast into self-indulgence and eventually making a few of what are considered the worst films of the past decade. But then, all of a sudden, with 2015’s wonderfully creepy The Visit , and now his newest thriller, Split , it appears that Shyamalan is back. And what’s more, for the first time it seems like he’s actually

Silence offers no easy answers. In fact, it may not offer any answers at all. Martin Scorsese has always had a deep current of religion running through his movies, and this is his most explicitly Catholic since 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ . But unlike that movie, which in many ways was an affirmation of faith, almost all Silence gives us is questions. Questions about the nature of faith, what a person must endure for faith, what a person owes to others in service of that faith, and what