dir. by Paul Feig
The third movie from the potent duo of Melissa McCarthy and writer-director Paul Feig is a hilarious success that contains as many thrills as it does laughs.
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After a few rocky years, Pixar re-emerges in top form with Inside Out, a film as smart, funny, and emotional as the studio's very best.
Jurassic Park is widely regarded a classic, but its sequels are... less so. Jurassic World seeks to reboot the series, with an all-new cast and all-new technology. So does it reach the heights of the original? Not even close.
Brad Bird's Tomorrowland seemed promising from all the previews, and it's clear that he has a vision, but in just about every area, this vision is compromised by its own muddled screenplay.
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George Miller's return to his iconic Mad Max franchise is not only the series' strongest entry, but quite possibly one of the best action movies ever made.
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Writer Alex Garland's directorial debut Ex Machina has finally arrived here after weeks of waiting, and thankfully it's a triumph of intelligent sci-fi in spite of its faults.
The sequel to 2012's smash hit The Avengers was bound to be the biggest film of the year, and nothing seems poised to top it at the box office. Marvel Studios films are reliably high-quality action fare, and Age of Ultron is not the studio's first failure... but it also doesn't hold a candle to its predecessor and isn't one of the studio's strongest efforts.